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Arkansas executes 2 inmates on the same gurney, hours apart
ABC News ^ | April 25, 2017 | ANDREW DEMILLO AND KELLY P. KISSEL

Posted on 04/24/2017 11:29:58 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain

Two inmates received lethal injections on the same gurney Monday night about three hours apart as Arkansas completed the nation's first double execution since 2000, just days after the state ended a nearly 12-year hiatus on administering capital punishment.

While the first inmate, Jack Jones, 52, was executed on schedule, shortly after 7 p.m., attorneys for the second, Marcel Williams, 46, convinced a federal judge minutes later to briefly delay his execution over concerns about how the earlier one was carried out. They claimed Jones "was moving his lips and gulping for air," an account the state's attorney general denied, but the judge lifted her stay about an hour later and Williams was pronounced dead at 10:33 p.m.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: arkansas; capitalpunishment; executions
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To: beaversmom

He is a monster, and a liar, like all of these other cretins too.


61 posted on 04/25/2017 7:55:57 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Ciaphas Cain

They could do better with a guillotine, lots of ‘em, minutes apart.


62 posted on 04/25/2017 2:18:03 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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