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| Arkansas prison population reduced by 2 at half past ten last evening |
| 2017-04-25 |
| [Reuters] Arkansas carried out back-to-back executions on Monday night, administering lethal injections to two men convicted of rape and murder to become the first U.S. state to put more than one inmate to death on the same day in 17 years. Marcel Williams, 46, was pronounced dead at 10:33 CDT, a little more than three hours after the execution of 52-year-old Jack Jones, according to officials at Cummins Unit prison, about 75 miles southeast of the state capital, Little Rock. The two men were among eight that the state had initially planned to execute over the course of 11 days this month, prompted by the impending expiration date of the state's supplies of midazolam, a sedative used as part of the three-drug protocol. Four of those executions have been put on hold by court order. Jones was convicted of raping and killing Mary Phillips, 34, in 1995 and trying to murder her 11-year-old daughter. He also was convicted of rape and murder in Florida. Williams was convicted of the 1997 kidnapping, rape and murder of 22-year-old Stacy Errickson. He also abducted and raped two other women. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Part of the challenge is to make it out alive. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-04-25 12:13 |
| #1 Who says its an escape proof prison? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-04-25 07:33 |