Arkansas has new supply of lethal drug; execution to be set

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Andrew Demillo, Associated Press
Updated 11:36 pm, Thursday, August 17, 2017


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has a new supply of a controversial lethal injection drug months after the state put four men to death over an eight-day period, officials said Thursday, as the state prepared to set an execution date for an inmate.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson's office said he planned to schedule an execution for Jack Greene after a request from Attorney General Leslie Rutledge. Greene was convicted in the 1991 killing of Sidney Jethro Burnett after Burnett and his wife accused Greene of arson. He has exhausted his appeals and there's no stay of execution in place, Rutledge told the governor in her request.
 
Hutchinson spokesman J.R. Davis said he doesn't have a timeline yet for scheduling Greene's execution.

Arkansas executed four prisoners in April but had intended to put eight men to death. The state scheduled the executions to occur before its supply of midazolam, a sedative used in its three-drug lethal injection process, expired. Department of Correction Spokesman Solomon Graves said the state obtained the new supply on Aug. 4 and it expires in January 2019. A state law keeps the source of the state's execution drugs secret.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Arkansas-AG-asks-governor-to-schedule-execution-11882279.php

[GaryCnf]

1. This is a tragedy

And a testament to the utter depravity of this country.

Midazolam doesn't work and the USSC doesn't give a shit if we are suffocating people.

We can't even get all Democrats to say that we shouldn't be the only country in the Western world that still carries out capital punishment.

We are beasts, wolves and sheep. No wonder we have a beast for a president.

[Nitram]

2. A major overdose of heroin would do the job quickly, quietly and thoroughly.

Conservatives love capital punishment, bu they hate "illegal drugs."