Arkansas setzt 8 Hinrichtungen
2 Menschen hinrichten an einem Tag
Was macht das wohl mit den Menschen die das Ausführen müssen?
2 people executed in one day.
What does it do with the people who have to do this?
EXECUTED
Ledell Lee - Jack Harold Jones
Marcel Wayne Williams - Kenneth Williams
STAYED
Bruce Ward - Don Davis - Stacey Johnson - Jason McGehee
Arkansas Online takes a look at the lives and crimes of seven death row inmates
11. Mai 2017 The drugs we use for executions can cause immense pain and suffering David Waisel is an associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. In theory, executions by lethal injection using three drugs can be efficient, effective and humane. But lately, in practice, they have been anything but. Take the execution of Kenneth Williams last week in Arkansas: Media and attorney witnesses reported movements indicating that Williams did not lose consciousness after receiving the first drug. He struggled to breathe while the sedative — known as midazolam — took effect. The Washington Post
29. April 2017 Newsletter - Sister Helen Prejean
To Arkansas executions
28. April 2017 Arkansas Hinrichtungen
Kommentar, normaler-wahnsinn
28. April 2017 After Arkansas Execution, Questions Are Raised About Drug’s Effectiveness. Kenneth D. Williams, a convicted murderer, died at 11:05 p.m. on Thursday at the Cummins Unit, a state prison in southeast Arkansas. A news media witness reported that Mr. Williams briefly experienced “coughing, convulsing, lurching, jerking” after the state began to administer midazolam, the first of its three lethal injection drugs. The New York Times
28. April 2017 Fourth and final Arkansas inmate Kenneth Williams executed. 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. The Guardian, by Ed Pilkington
27. April 2017 An Arkansas death row inmate took their father’s life. Here’s why they don’t want the killer executed. “I never wanted him to be put to death. Ever,” Kayla Greenwood, 22, said in a telephone interview from her home outside Springfield, Mo. “Nobody in my family disagrees. Not one person.” The Washington Post
27. April 2017 A copy of Kenneth Williams's prepared last words before his execution in Arkansas. Alan Blinder @alanblinder | Twitter
26. April 2017 Kenneth Williams: Ozarks family buys plane ticket for Arkansas death row inmate's daughter. After being interviewed by the News-Leader about the death of her father and the impending execution in Arkansas of the man who caused it, a Willard woman reached out to the inmate's daughter in Washington on Tuesday. News-Leader
26. April 2017 Kenneth Williams: Victim's family asks for state to spare murderer's life. "I believe justice has already been served. He hasn't been able to kill anyone else. Executing him is more of revenge," said Stacey Yaw, who was Michael Greenwood’s wife. KSPR
26. April 2017 How a Daughter’s Search for Her Biological Father Led Her to an Execution in Arkansas. ... She found out that her father was Jack Jones Jr., a man on Arkansas’s death row. The Intercept
24. April 2017 Double Execution in Arkansas Marks First in U.S. Since 2000
The state executed death row inmate Marcel Williams Monday, April 24, at 10:33 p.m., just over three hours after executing inmate Jack Jones, who died at 7:20 p.m. Arkansas matters
24. April 2017 Arkansas Carries Out Double-Execution Despite Claims First Death Was ‘Inhumane’. Arkansas on Monday night carried out the first double execution in the U.S. since 2000 despite concerns that the first of the two was “inhumane.” Huffingtonpost
24. April 2017 Arkansas Executes Death Row Inmate Jack Jones
Jones died by lethal injection at 7:20 p.m., April 24. His execution followed Ledell Lee, who was put to death Thursday, April 20. Arkansas matters
24. April 2017 Death Row Inmate Jack Jones' Last Words
23. April 2017 AR Death Row Inmate's Sister: 'Why Can't I Witness my Brother's Execution?' LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (News release) - Lynn Scott, the sister of Arkansas death row inmate Jack Jones, Jr., has been denied a request to witness the execution of her brother, who is scheduled to die April 24. Arkansas matters
21. April 2017 How can we execute people if 1 in 25 on death row are innocent?
rkansas executed Ledell Lee on Thursday night, after it fought and won a complex and sometimes confusing legal battle. The state executed him in spite of Lee’s insistence that he was not guilty of murdering Debra Rees, a crime committed more than 20 years ago. It did so despite doubts about whether he had sufficient intellectual capacity to be “eligible” for the death penalty. The Guardian
20. April 2017 12:48 a.m. » Execution of death-row inmate gives victim's family closure, official says; witness describes lethal injection. Arkansas Online
20. April 2017 New: The Arkansas Supreme Court just ruled that the state can use the illegally-obtained drugs in executions beginning tonight. Sister Helen Prejean | Twitter
20: April 2017 Currently, as we understand, Ledell Lee's execution will move forward this evening Damien Echols | Twitter
20. April 2017 Arkansas Fights to Execute Two Men Without Testing DNA Evidence That Could Exonerate Them Damien Echols never planned to come back to Arkansas. “These days, I try to look forward,” he wrote in his 2012 memoir, Life After Death. “I’m tired of looking back.” After spending half his life on Arkansas’s death row – he was finally released in 2011 – Echols was “sick to death” of his claim to fame as one of the West Memphis Three. “It’s a title I’d prefer never to hear again,” he wrote. “It does nothing but remind me of hell.”
The Intercept
20. April 2017 Arkansas Supreme Court says it won't reconsider its decision to halt execution of Stacey Johnson. The Associated Press | Twitter
20. April 2017 The Latest: Arkansas court won't reconsider inmate's stay
The Arkansas Supreme Court says it won't reconsider its decision to halt the execution of an inmate the state planned to put to death Thursday night.
In a 4-3 ruling, justices denied the state's motion to reconsider the stay issued for Stacey Johnson. His execution was halted after his attorneys sought additional DNA tests they say could exonerate him. It was unclear whether the state would appeal Johnson's stay to the U.S. Supreme Court. Arkansas had planned to execute Johnson and Ledell Lee Thursday night. Lee is fighting in federal and state courts for a similar stay. AP News
20. April 2017 Arkansas execution drugs intended for surgery, heart issues. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Despite numerous legal challenges that already have derailed two of eight executions planned for April, Arkansas has vowed to press ahead with plans to carry out executions Thursday and next week, before its supply of a key lethal injection drug expires. AP News
20. April 2017 ARKANSAS EXECUTIONS: Multiple rulings halt Thursday's scheduled executions. A Pulaski County judge issued a temporary restraining order on Arkansas' use of vecuronium bromide as part of its three-drug lethal injection protocol, effectively blocking all scheduled executions. ArkansasOnline
20. April 2017 Arkansas executions blocked again by healthcare company suit America’s largest drug wholesaler has once again succeeded in blocking the use of dishonestly-obtained medicines in Arkansas’s planned “mass execution”. deathpenaltynews
19. April 2017 Ledell Lee Asks Arkansas Supreme Court for Stay of Execution to Prove His Innocence Through DNA Testing. He is scheduled for execution on Thursday, April 20, 2017. “Mr. Lee has consistently maintained his innocence, and yet the state is rushing to put him to death without giving him the opportunity to do the DNA testing that could prove who actually committed the crime,” said Nina Morrison, a senior staff attorney with the Innocence Project, which is affiliated with Cardozo School of Law. “All we are asking is that the Arkansas Supreme Court issue a stay of execution so that Mr. Lee is given the opportunity to do the testing that could spare his life.” Innocence Project
18. April 2017 Former Arkansas Death Row Chief Shocked at Execution Binge - “What Are They Going to Tell Their Kids?” Patrick Crain, who worked for the Arkansas Department of Corrections from 2003 to 2007 and was head of the Varner unit’s death row, told the Intercept that he’s shocked the state of Arkansas wants “to carry out the executions in this crazy way.” The Intercepter by Creede Newton
18. April 2017 The state's next two executions are scheduled for Thursday night.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he's disappointed after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to lift a stay that would have allowed the state's first execution in 12 years. But the Republican governor says he was heartened by other court rulings Monday that could pave the way for Arkansas to execute several more inmates before the end of April. The state's next two executions are scheduled for Thursday night. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge noted that there are five upcoming executions "with nothing preventing them from occurring." Arkansas originally scheduled eight executions to take place before April 30, when one of its lethal injection drugs expires. AP News
18. April 2017 Lee Also Files Motion Seeking Stay and New Proceedings in Federal Court With Evidence of Intellectual Disability. Arkansas death row prisoner Ledell Lee, now represented in federal court by Cassandra Stubbs of the ACLU, will appear before an Arkansas circuit court today to at 1:30 p.m. CT to argue that he is entitled to test critical evidence from his 1993 trial to prove his innocence. Lee seeks to test blood and hair evidence that has never been previously tested in the case. ACLU
17. April 2017 Overview to the executions in Arkansas
AP NEWS
15. April 2017 US-Richter stoppen Hinrichtung von sieben Häftlingen
Die Proteste scheinen gewirkt zu haben. Gerichte im US-Bundesstaat Arkansas verhindern, dass dort innerhalb weniger Tage sieben Menschen hingerichtet werden. Deren Schicksal bleibt aber ungewiss. SRF
14. April 2017 Judge issues temporary restraining order halting Arkansas executions
A Pulaski County circuit judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring the state from executing condemned inmates it had planned to put to death beginning Monday. ArkansasOnline
14. April 2017 Arkansas Supreme Court stays execution of Bruce Ward
It did so without explanation, but his attorneys had requested a stay based on mental disability. They said under court precedent he was incompetent to be executed. Arkansas Time
12. April 2017 UPDATE: Court issues stay of execution for Davis
The Arkansas Supreme Court issued a stay of execution Monday afternoon, hours before Don Davis was to die by lethal injection. The state Department of Correction said justices intervened amid a question over whether the Legislature properly left execution policies in the hands of prison officials. ArkansasOnline
11. April 2017 Tagesschau Bericht Massenhinrichtung in Arkansas
Im US-Bundesstaat Arkansas werden in zehn Tagen sieben Menschen hingerichtet, weil ein benötigtes Mittel des Giftcocktails Ende April abläuft. In Arkansas hat es seit 12 Jahren keine Hinrichtungen mehr gegeben. Demonstranten versuchen das Vorhaben ihres Gouverneurs zu stoppen. SRF
10. April 2017 As judge considers Arkansas' executions plan, doctor shares concerns about state's drugs A doctor who specializes in anesthesiology expressed concerns in federal court Monday over the three-drug mixture with which Arkansas plans to execute seven men next week. ArkansasOnline
06. April 2017 Arkansas Parole Board Recommends Clemency for Death-Row Inmate
The Arkansas Parole Board has recommended that one of the eight men set to be executed during a 10-day span this month receive clemency and be spared capital punishment. deathpenaltynews
02. April 2017 Arkansas can't find enough volunteers to witness back-to-back executions The state code requires that no fewer than 6 "respectable citizens" be present at each execution. There's one problem: It's having a hard time finding enough volunteers to witness them. The volunteer pool is apparently thin enough that state Department of Corrections Director Wendy Kelley invited members of a local Rotary Club to volunteer. deathpenaltynews
30 März 2017 New Report: Prisoners on Arkansas’s Execution List Defined By Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability, and Bad Lawyering. Since the Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty in 1976, Arkansas has executed just 27 people.[1] It has not sent an inmate to the death chamber since 2005.[2] But beginning on April 17, Arkansas intends to execute an unprecedented eight men in just ten days.[3] Fair Punishment Project
28. März 2017 Former Warden: Arkansas Execution Rush Is Dangerous and Risky
As Commissioner of Corrections in Georgia, I presided over five executions. Those executions were spaced over two years. We had a legal duty to carry them out and attempted to do so with integrity. However, for me and many of my former colleagues in other corrections agencies, our role in executions led to a deep sense of guilt, sleepless nights and permanent emotional damage. deathpenaltynews
08. März 2017 Death-penalty opponents outraged at Arkansas 'assembly line' of executions For more than a decade, the state of Arkansas did not put to death a single condemned inmate. Next month, it will execute 8. deathpenaltynews
03. März 2017 Arkansas Rushes to Execute 8 Men in the Space of 10 Days
The state of Arkansas plans to put to death eight inmates over a span of 10 days next month, a pace of executions unequaled in recent American history and brought about by a looming expiration date for a drug used by the state for lethal injections. The New York Times
05. März 2017 Arkansas Rushes to Execute 8 Men in the Space of 10 Days
The state of Arkansas plans to put to death eight inmates over a span of 10 days next month, a pace of executions unequaled in recent American history and brought about by a looming expiration date for a drug used by the state for lethal injections. deathpenaltynews
27. Februar 2017 Arkansas governor sets execution dates for 8
Hutchinson set dates in April for the executions of eight death-row inmates who have exhausted their state appeals. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Arkansas' lethal-injection law and the Arkansas Supreme Court subsequently lifted stays of execution it had issued for the inmates. Arkansas News
27. Februar 2017 Arkansas Schedules Unprecedented Eight Executions in Ten-Day Period Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge asked that the dates be set after the U.S. Supreme Court on February 21 declined to review a state court decision upholding Arkansas' lethal injection protocol. Because of drug shortages and challenges to its lethal injection procedures, the state has not carried out an execution since 2005. DPCI
27. Februar 2017 Arkansas Sets Eight Executions for April Despite Drug Shortage
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Arkansas on Monday scheduled eight executions for April, the U.S. state's first since 2005, despite lacking one of the three drugs needed to put the men to death. REUTERS
26. Februar 2017 Arkansas: Staat möchte Hinrichtungen wieder aufnehmen, doch die nötigen Medikamente fehlen Acht Hinrichtungen möchte die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft in naher Zukunft stattfinden lassen, doch dem Staat fehlt eins von drei Medikamenten, um die acht Männer per Giftinjektion zu töten.
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- Aufgeschoben - ist nicht aufgehoben, stoniert
