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After a week of lengthy court proceedings in Arkansas over the scheduled executions of seven death row inmates in 11 days, The Natural State executed an inmate for the first time since 2005. The execution came minutes before his death warrant was set to expire at midnight last night.  

Court rulings had spared three of the seven due to be executed this week, but the late hour ruling allowed for the execution of Ledell Lee, 51, who was sentenced to death for the 1995 death of his neighbor Debra Reese. Lee was pronounced dead at 11:56 PM. 

Multiple executions had been ordered as supplies of the lethal injection drug, Midazolam, was set to expire at the end of the month. The first three executions were canceled because of court decisions. Lee's execution, the first in more than a decade, brought closure to victims survivors, according to a statement by victims' families. 

The next scheduled executions are set for Monday. Sarah Whites-Koditschek, a reporter for Arkansas Public Media, explains what's next for the state.