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Arkansas double-execution the first in US since 2000

Published time: 24 Apr, 2017 23:54Edited time: 25 Apr, 2017 00:04

Arkansas is set to put to death two men convicted of rape and murder, after their last-ditch efforts appealing to the US Supreme Court were rejected Monday evening.

Jack Jones, 52, and Marcel Williams, 46, petitioned the US Supreme Court to halt their executions, citing their obesity as cause for risk of cruel and unusual punishment under lethal injection, according to Reuters.

They had already lost their cases before the Arkansas Supreme Court and the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jones is scheduled to be judicially killed at 7:00pm Central time, and Williams’ lethal injection will follow soon after, at approximately 8:15pm.

Jones was convicted of raping and killing 34-year-old Mary Phillips and leaving her 11-year-old daughter for dead after trying to murder her in 1995. Williams was convicted of the 1997 murder of 22-year-old Stacy Errickson, and also abducted and raped two other women.

Texas was the last state to execute two death row inmates in one day, in 2000.

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