Double Execution Goes Forward In Arkansas
The Takeaway | Apr 25, 2017
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Arkansas executed two convicted killers on Monday night after attorneys claimed that the first execution was botched. It's the first double-execution to be carried out in the nation since the year 2000.
The state is on a race against the clock to proceed with a slate of executions scheduled to take place before a key drug in the lethal injection cocktail, Midazolam, expires on April 30th.
Tom Meagher, the deputy managing editor at The Marshall Project and the website The Next to Die, which tracks scheduled executions across the country, explains what happened last night and what we can expect to see over the next several days.
