The briefing contained information about Swindler's description, the car he was thought to be driving, and the fact that he was considered to be armed and dangerous.
Swindler attempted to flee, but being unfamiliar with Fort Smith, took a road that trailed off into a dead end in a soybean field near the Arkansas River.
However, inmates who had been sentenced to death before the legislation was adopted were allowed to choose between lethal injection and electrocution.
When Charles Laverne Singleton chose lethal injection, Swindler earned the distinction of being the last inmate to die in Arkansas' electric chair.
[4] Warden David White said Swindler might have wanted the notoriety of being the last Arkansas inmate to die in the electric chair.