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Arkansas Kills Inmate In Latest Of Several Planned Executions

In a bid to save a lethal drug from expiring before use, the southern US state of Arkansas, is rushing to execute several inmates before a lethal drug expires at the end of the month, has carried out the first of two executions scheduled for Monday, the attorney general said.

Jack Jones was executed after the US Supreme Court rejected an 11th-hour request from his attorneys asking the justices to reconsider a procedural issue from his trial.

Arkansas had planned to put eight convicted murderers to death in 11 days — a record, had it been carried out — but four have won reprieves.

Marcel Williams was scheduled to die later Monday night. If the execution goes ahead, it would be the first double execution in the United States since 2000.Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has said the accelerated execution timetable is necessary as the state’s stock of a sedative used in lethal injections will expire at the end of the month.

 

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