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.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Victim’s family on Arkansas execution: ‘Ready for it to be done’
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/24/us/arkansas-execution-victims-families
On June 6, 1995, Jack Harold Jones raped and killed Phillips in an accounting office in Bald Knob, where she worked as a bookkeeper. He also beat her 11-year-old daughter, Lacey, and left her for dead.
Lacey regained consciousness as police photographers — who thought she was dead — took pictures of the crime scene. Now Lacey Seal, she is 32 years old.
Idgi why is ABC making a big deal about using the same gurney?
Arkansas executed four men in an eight-day period in 1960. The only quicker pace included quadruple executions in 1926 and 1930.
That is false.
On 8 August 1942, six Krautisch men who had entered the United States for the purpose of sabotage (see Operation Pastorius) were fried in the DC electric chair (which ran on 4500 VAC). According to one account:
On August 7 General Cox, the tribunal's provost marshal, received instructions from President Roosevelt: all but Dasch and Burger were to be electrocuted at noon the following day.Early in the morning of August 8, after the Germans had been fed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast at the District of Columbia Jail, General Cox and an Army chaplain entered the cells of the condemned men and informed them of their fate. Each man turned pale and seemed stunned. None said a word. Burger was reading a copy of The Saturday Evening Post when Cox and the chaplain entered and told him he had been spared. Burger responded simply "Yes, sir," and returned to his reading.
As the morning progressed, military officers, Army doctors, the city coroner, and Army ambulances arrived at the jail. People moved quickly and said little. The mood was somber. Final adjustments were made to the electric chair—a red-oak device situated in a twelve-by-eighteen-foot execution chamber located on the top floor of the jail. Each condemned man would face a glass panel that appeared to him to be opaque, behind which would sit representatives of the tribunal and other officials. The witnesses were to include Major General McCoy, Hoover, and representatives of the War and Justice Departments. In alphabetical order, beginning with Haupt, the condemned men would be walked into the chamber and executed with 4,500 volts of electricity.
The process began at noon. Each execution took no longer than fourteen minutes—the time required to administer the sentence, establish a time of death, remove the corpse, and ventilate the room for the arrival of the next man.
After the final execution the tribunal reported to President Roosevelt that his orders had been carried out. Just before 1:30 P.M. an announcement was made by the White House press secretary, Steve Early, who reported that six executions had taken place. The six bodies were buried in a pauper's cemetery at Blue Plains, in the District of Columbia, a site adjacent to the Home for the Aged and Infirm and the Industrial Home School for Colored Children. Six wooden headboards—marked simply 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, and 281—identified the graves.
“Arkansas executes 2 inmates on the same gurney, hours apart”
Imagine lying on the same gurney next to a person who was executed 2 hours before and you’re next....
Next!
"Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty. My state (Texas) is putting in an express lane."
ABC News will ignore the race and religious motivations of racial and religiously motivated killers, but like so many dinosaur media outlets they are obsessed with the trifles surrounding the deserved deaths of convicted (as in tried and convicted) killers.
We are constantly bombarded with ‘last meal’ stories along with details about their executions. I’m surprised we didn’t get a listing of the contents of the tags on the sheets.
They are gone. That’s all I’m interested in.
All I hear this morning is that the two were “executed” or “put to death” when it could more simply be said that their sentences were carried out and that justice was served.
They were both executed on the eame Planet.
Murder victim, Mary Phillips
This is the only thing I could find of Stacy Errickson, Marcel Williams' murder victim, on the net.
Is that headline supposed to elicit shock? As if they must destroy the gurney after an execution?
Let me point out abortion clinic practices across this country.
Shed your tears for Mary Phillips & Stacy Errickson
http://www.mantecabulletin.com/section/38/article/143226
Jones raped and then murdered Phillips during a botched robbery at an accounting office in 1995. He also beat Phillips’ 11 year-old daughter so savagely that law enforcement officials were stunned when she suddenly moved when crime scene photos were being taken.
Errickson — a 22-year-old mother of two — had stopped for gas in 1994 when Williams forced his way into her car at gunpoint, robbed her, raped her and then dumped her body in a shallow grave. Errickson was not Williams’ first victim. He had attacked women previously.
We need almost 3,000 more of these to catch up. After that. I’d like to see the death penalty carried out in a reasonable time period after the conviction.
Two fewer oxygen thieves is definitely hygienic for Mother Earth.
How do you weigh over 400 pounds after 20 years on prison food?
So far, not enough blood sucking lawyers have suffered the death penalty
Hmmm.... 1977. Veerrry interesting
I can’t see why some American state can’t revive the use of a guillotine.
Hospitals let patients use beds and bedding that others used when they died. Lets make that a headline.
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