Posted on 04/27/2017 11:09:01 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
LITTLE ROCK —Arkansas put convicted killer Kenneth Williams to death Thursday night— the last of a controversial series of executions carried out as the state moved to carry out the sentences before its supply of a lethal injection drug expired.
Arkansas Department of Correction Spokesman Solomon Graves said that the lethal injection was administered at 10:52 p.m. local time (11:52 p.m. ET) and Williams was declared dead at 11:05 p.m.
Williams, 38, was scheduled to die at 7 p.m. local time (8 p.m. ET) via lethal injection at the Cummins Unit, where the state's death chamber is housed, about 75 miles south of Little Rock.
A reporter for The Associated Press who witnessed the execution said Williams appeared to convulse and jerk over the span of around 10 to 20 seconds after the sedative midazolam, the drug expiring at the end of the month, was administered.
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Interesting.
The drug expiration date angle, obviously to complicate things, is laughable. Modern pharmaceuticals especially drugs like barbiturate and diazapam analogs, and simple salts like potassium chloride, used in executions are shelf stable for years. They don’t magically decompose because of some date printed on the bottle.
Your bottle of table salt has an expiration date on it.
Contents: NaCl
Best used before: the entropic death of the universe.
There's been a series of stories in the Springfield News Leader about that part of the story. The victim's family forgave Mr. Williams, and he himself has evidently repented and found the Lord. I think it's an incredibly kind gesture by the victim's family.
Keep it up, boys. This is a good start.
Arkansas taking out the trash
Depends on the amount of dark matter in the cosmos. If the Big Rip scenario comes to pass you'll have a few last seconds to put salt on your hamburger before the sodium and chlorine atoms disassociate and go flying off (and then the electrons stop orbiting and the protons evaporate).
If only the Clintons were included in that bag of traah
That was mentioned in the article.
Check out the psychotic look of the guy in the first video at the link. He looks like a total mess of a millennial hipster. I’m going to save some screen shots for future memes and fun.
Expiration dates presume the drug is being used as intended.
Arkansas's use of these drugs is the ultimate off-label use. Hence, the dates shouldn't matter. Just up the dosage a tad or three.
He:
1) killed an 18-year-old cheerleader (she had gone to a steakhouse and had lunch after church.
2) tried to kill her friend (almost did).
3) shot a 36-year-old guy in the chest twice, killing him.
4) shot a 57-year-old guy in the back several times; the guy’s wife had gone to church alone; killer had escaped from prison before this murder and #5.
5) killed a guy driving a water truck which he rammed, whi.le running from the police (I think this guy was 24).
Traah = trash
Oh, and the 57-year-old-guy was killed, too.
“4th lethal injection in a week” ... maybe they should just do it right the first time?
No pictures of the victims and no drawn out descriptions of their deaths.
I’d say he was putting on a show that is not one of the side effects of the Name Brand which is VERSED widely used for surgery to put a patient to sleep. An OD just stops the heart as you go deeper into sleep state.
http://www.rxlist.com/midazolam-injection-side-effects-drug-center.htm
You don’t even wake dizzy or with a headache after surgery.
PS WE ARE BOYCOTTING ALL PILOT GAS STATIONS to protest the unnecessary gas tax hike. Know some truckers pass the message, his family owns them.
We had 100 on DR under last governor to get re-elected, he executed 1, there are now 61, where did the other 39 go? No one has been executed since.
Nikki
Nikki age 8
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