Summary:
Arkansas has a executed Marcel Wayne Williams, the state's attorney general confirmed, making him the second man to be put to death Monday night -- in Arkansas' first double execution since 1999. Williams was found guilty of murdering Stacy Errickson in 1994.
Arkansas executed Jack Harold Jones also. Jones was sentenced to death for the 1995 rape and murder of Mary Phillips.
Jones was executed first followed by Williams. The two were among eight inmates Governor Asa Hutchinson set for execution in April before the state's supply of sedatives used in lethal injections expires at the end of the month.
Before the second execution could begin, a federal district judge issued a temporary stay based on claims from Williams' lawyers that Jones' death was "torturous and inhumane." Infirmary staff tried unsuccessfully for 45 minutes to place a line in Jones' neck, before placing one elsewhere on his body, the emergency motion read.
The state called the claims "utterly baseless" and a federal judge lifted the temporary stay, clearing the way for Williams' execution to proceed.
Analysis:
This article was written by Emanuella Grinberg and Jamiel Lynch for CNN on Monday, April 24, 2017. The article was written without bias and simply presented the facts surrounding the double execution in the state of Arkansas. This article actually does relate to prior events in US history. The last double execution was in 1999. It was in Arkansas and it occurred on September 8, 1999. Whenever this happened in 1999 Amnesty International said it was a "shameful day," and that the state was treating people "as though they have a sell-by date."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/24/us/arkansas-executions/index.html
I do not agree with the death row penalty at all. In my opinion they are just escaping from their problems instead of facing eternal suffrage. Instead of making them think about their choices, they are being taken away from them.
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