Accelerated executions: Arkansas plans 8 over 10-day period

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Accelerated executions: Arkansas plans 8 over 10-day period

By ANDREW DEMILLO, ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Mar 21, 2017, 4:40 PM ET

After nearly a dozen years without an execution, Arkansas is racing to put eight men to death next month over a 10-day period — an unprecedented timetable the state says is necessary because one of the three ingredients in the lethal injection will soon expire.

If carried out, the executions beginning April 17 would make Arkansas the first state to execute that many inmates in such a short time since the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976.

The accelerated schedule calls for prison staff to conduct four double executions, with only a few days in between. It poses a number of risks, experts say, and the state's preparations are shrouded in secrecy.

Some attorneys and anti-death penalty groups question whether the quick turnarounds will intensify pressure on the prison staff and cause problems, as happened in Oklahoma in 2014, when an inmate writhed and moaned on a gurney for 43 minutes after his injection, or in Arizona, where the fatal dose took nearly two hours to work.

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[msongs]

1. praise the lord nt

[shenmue]

2. Whoa

[longship]

3. Well, there's always the head ripping off machine.

As reported by The Onion, Ohio has switched to this new, modern death penalty method. Then there's Texas, with their new, modern mashinator.

[democratisphere]

4. Yes. More like a third world country evey day.

Barbaric!

[Runningdawg]

5. Not the Onion

OK briefly toyed with the idea of execution by air. That's right just hook up an IV and pump in air. The idiots thought this would be a way around the restrictions on drugs.