Two prisoners were given lethal injections for about three hours, and Arkansas completed its first double execution in the United States since 2000.
Shortly after seven o'clock P. M. local time, the first prisoner, Jack Jones, was executed on schedule.
But the second lawyer, Marcel Williams, persuaded a judge in a few minutes to postpone his punishment for the time being because he was concerned about how the punishment was carried out earlier. googletag. {});
They claimed Jones was panting and the state attorney general denied the claim, but about an hour later the judge canceled her stay and Williams was pronounced dead at the age of 10. 33 local time
In the emergency document, Williams's lawyer wrote that it took officials 45 minutes to try to place the intravenous line around Jones's neck and then put it elsewhere.
It believes that Williams, who weighs 400 pounds, may face "painful" deaths because of his weight.
Before allowing the witness to enter the death chamber, place the intravenous line.
An Associated Press reporter who witnessed the execution said that Jones briefly moved his lips after taking midazorun, and officials intermittently put a tongue-pressing agent in his mouth in the first few minutes. googletag. {});
Two minutes after they examined consciousness, his chest stopped moving and he was declared dead at 7.
20pm originally, Governor Asa Hutchinson planned to be 11-
The day of April.
Since the United States Supreme Court resumed the death penalty in 1976, these eight executions will be the most carried out by a country in such a short period of time.
The state said execution was required before a supply of lethal injection drugs expired on April 30.
In addition to two executions yesterday, Arkansas executed another prisoner last week, and the last one is scheduled for Thursday.
Four others were blocked.
Prior to last week, Arkansas had not executed the death penalty since 2005, nor had it executed twice since 1999.
Jones was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Mary Phillips 1995.
He was also sentenced to killing Philippine MS 11-year-
Found guilty in another rape and murder case in Florida. googletag. {});
Williams was sentenced to death for 1994 rape and killing 22 peopleyear-
Old Stacy Errickson, who kidnapped him at a gas station in central Arkansas.
Authorities say Williams kidnapped and raped two other women a few days before he was arrested for the death of Errickson MS.
Williams, who admitted last month that he was responsible for the state parole board, said: "I wish I could take it back, but I can't.
Jones said in a letter earlier this month that he was ready to be killed by the state.
He was in a wheelchair and was cut off a leg in prison for diabetes.
The letter read aloud by his lawyer at the leniency hearing went on to say: "I will not ask for forgiveness because I have no right.
Solomon Graves, spokesman for the Arkansas Correction Department, said: "Both of them had dinner yesterday afternoon.
Jones had fried chicken, potato logs with tar sauce, beef jerky, three pieces of sugar, chocolate milkshakes and fruit drinks.
Williams had fried chicken, banana pudding, cornflakes, two sodas and tomato sauce potatoes.
In recent pleadings by state courts and federal courts, prisoners said that the three medicines used by Arkansas to execute prisoners may be ineffective due to poor health. googletag. {});
The last state to put more than one prisoner to death on the same day was Texas, where two killers were executed on August 2000.
Arkansas executed four people in eight months.
The day of 1960.
The only faster pace included four executions in 1926 and 1930.
Including Jones and Williams, nine people were executed in the United States this year, four in Texas, three in Arkansas, and one in Missouri and one in Virginia.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 20 people were executed last year, down from 98 in 1999, the lowest number since 14 in 1991.
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