The double-execution horror in Arkansas - World Socialist Web Site
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The double-execution horror in Arkansas
25 April 2017
The world looked on in horror last night as two inmates were put to death in Arkansas in the first double-execution in the US since 2000. The second execution was halted temporarily after the first prisoner’s attorneys claimed their client’s execution appeared to be “torturous and inhumane.”
The execution process for Jack Jones Jr., 52, began at 7:06 p.m. local time at the state’s Cummins Unit in southeast Arkansas. The prisoner, who had spent more than two decades on death row, was pushed into the death chamber in a wheelchair, having had one leg amputated as a result of diabetes. Jones was pronounced dead by the coroner at 7:20 p.m., 14 minutes after the procedure began.