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Arkansas executes first inmate in 12 years, more lethal injections to come before drug expires

Published time: 21 Apr, 2017 05:21Edited time: 21 Apr, 2017 05:29

The state of Arkansas has executed an inmate for the first time since 2005, and plans to execute several more convicts before its supply of a lethal chemical expires in late April.

BREAKING: Arkansas executes inmate, first to die under state’s plan of multiple lethal injections before drug expires.

— The Associated Press (@AP) April 21, 2017

Ledell Lee, who was sentenced to death for murdering his neighbor, Debra Reese, in a Little Rock suburb in 1993, was pronounced dead at 11:56pm central time at the Cummins Unit prison in southern Arkansas. He received three lethal injections, including midazolam, to render him unconscious, vecuronium bromide to halt his breathing, and potassium chloride to stop his heart.

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