Arkansas plans to Execute 8 men in 10 Days

[resister]

So, what happens if we rush to get this done and find out one of them is innocent?

Same thing that happens if you wait 20 years, only less taxes pissed away.

[decedent]

Today

Why Arkansas Plans to Execute a Historic Number of Inmates in a Span of 10 Days


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...0-days-n734731


The state government of Arkansas plans to execute eight men over a period of 10 days in April because one of the key drugs in their lethal injection protocol is set to expire at the end of the month.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson set the dates between April 17 and 27 and will require the state's department of corrections to execute two men per day with a few days between each lethal injection.

"As required by law, I have set the execution dates for the eight convicted of capital murder.

This is based upon the attorney general's referral and the exhaustion of all appeals and court reviews that have been ongoing for more than a decade," Hutchinson said in a statement, though another statement added that the executions were placed so closely together because the availability of the drugs for future lethal injections was unclear.


On March 8, Arkansas acquired the final drug needed to execute the eight inmates, under the execution protocols used by the state.




Top row, from left, Bruce Ward, Marcel Williams, Jason McGehee and Kenneth Williams.
Bottom row, Stacey Johnson, Ledell Lee, Don Davis and Jack Jones.

This is odd.... isn't 16% of the population black?

[resister]

This is odd.... isn't 16% of the population black?

What percent commits crimes?

[Adelaide]

Well, at least they are getting the right drugs. Pharmaceutical companies are now refusing to sell to the prison system because they do not want their drugs used in executions, which means that some prisons have tried untested drug protocols that vary from the standard three-drug protocol. There was one guy who did not get the right drugs and gasped over 600 times before dying. Also, because of the types of drugs used, if the sedative fails that means the second drug that paralyzes, paralyzes while the person then experiences cardiovascular failure from the third drug (which is very painful).

Man, you know something isn't humane when pharmaceutical companies won't even sell the drugs.

[resister]

Firing squad is humane.

[Crepitus]

Same thing that happens if you wait 20 years, only less taxes pissed away.

Not really. Can't release a dead man.

[patrickt]

Well notice who the Gov. of Arkansas is ... Trumpf-boot-licker Asa Hutchinson .... yeah this was the guy who Wayne Lapierre paid $1 Million to come with the plan to turn our schools in to Afghanistan Firebases after Sandy Hook ...


http://www.nationalmemo.com/what-the...ld-would-cost/

Couldn't answer the question so you go off on a psychotic rant. Now, I understand why you made the original post. You figured any response would merit the psychotic response.

so long.

[patrickt]

So, what happens if we rush to get this done and find out one of them is innocent?

Scarcely rushing but what if we do one a month and find out one is innocent. My god, what if we find out one of an angel sent by god and we've killed him. When we're playing "what if", something the left loves since they live in a world of fantasy, "what if" we turn one lose and he kills another person. That's happened. And when the attorney who got the confessed murderer turned loose was asked if he felt any responsibility for the woman murder he said, "None. I was just doing my job." Just like Hillary Clinton, the guards at Buchenwald, and Lois Lerner.

[DGUtley]

I am adamantly against the death penalty for inter alia the same reason that I am against abortion -- it is the taking of life. It serves no societal purpose according to all the studies. I wish Ohio would ban it.

As a life member of the NRA, I don't see a connection between the NRA and Arkansas' death penalty.

[FindersKeepers]

I support the death penalty but I can't figure out why we've seen so much trouble with the drugs used to end these folks lives. One drug to paralyze them, another to stop their heart, etc. Sometimes they don't die...

Why not just inject them with whatever is used to euthanize pets that are suffering? Whatever the vets do -- it's quick and appears to be painless.

Why all this trouble getting the drugs?