The Latest: Arkansas asks justices to not stop execution

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 8:37 pm, Thursday, April 27, 2017



VARNER, Ark. (AP) — The Latest on Arkansas' effort to execute a fourth inmate before its supply of a lethal injection drug expires on Sunday (all times local):

8 p.m.

Arkansas' attorney general is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the execution of inmate Kenneth Williams to go forward.

In filings before the court Thursday night, Arkansas' attorney general's office is arguing that Williams' conviction and death sentence have been thoroughly reviewed by courts. Williams was sentenced to death for the 1999 killing of Cecil Boren, whom Williams fatally shot after escaping from prison.
 
Williams' attorneys are arguing that Williams is intellectually disabled and ineligible for the death penalty. They've also raised concerns about juror misconduct in Williams' trial and over the two executions that Arkansas conducted earlier this week.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Arkansas-inmate-hopes-to-avoid-being-11102976.php

[lapucelle]

1. Asa Hutchinson is on personal killing spree.

Hey Asa, I thought you were pro-life.
No, you're a whited sepulcher.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whited%20sepulcher

[Eugene]

2. Fourth and final Arkansas inmate Kenneth Williams executed

Source: The Guardian

Fourth and final Arkansas inmate Kenneth Williams executed

Kenneth Williams put to death by lethal injection after
appeal to US supreme court fails to secure a stay on
his sentence

Ed Pilkington in New York and Jacob Rosenberg in the Cummins Unit, Arkansas
Friday 28 April 2017 06.01 BST

Arkansas has carried out its fourth execution within a week, bringing to a troubling end the state’s controversial attempt to run a “conveyor belt of death” in an aggressive burst of killings unseen in the US for more than half a century.

Kenneth Williams was pronounced dead at 11.05pm local time at the end of a 13-minute lethal injection that resulted in disturbing signs of distress on the part of the prisoner.

Eyewitnesses in the death chamber reported that his whole body shook with 15 or 20 convulsions just minutes into the procedure, and that he continued to breathe heavily even after a paralytic was injected into him to render all movement impossible.

After the killing was completed, the Republican governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, the architect of the state’s controversial schedule of quick-fire executions, proclaimed that “the long path of justice ended tonight. Arkansans can reflect on the last two weeks with confidence that our system of laws in this state has worked”.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/27/arkansas-executions-kenneth-williams-fourth-final