of the drugs. It'll also be the latest in a series of legal battles over midazolam, a sedative that other states have moved away from using amid claims it doesn't render inmates fully unconscious during lethal injections.
Only four of the eight executions scheduled in Arkansas over 11 days in 2017 actually happened, with courts halting the others. The state currently doesn't have any executions scheduled, and Arkansas' supply of the three drugs used in its lethal injection process has expired. Another round of multiple executions is unlikely if Arkansas finds more drugs, since only one death row inmate has exhausted all his appeals.
"Juries gave these individuals lawful sentences for committing the most heinous acts against a human being, taking another human being's innocent life," Rutledge, a Republican, said. "We must see these sentences carried out. The families of these victims deserve justice."California Critics have cited problematic executions involving the sedative as evidence that it doesn't work properly. Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett remained alive for 43 minutes, groaning and writhing on a gurney after an intravenous line was improperly connected in his 2014 execution. Inmate Joseph Wood gasped for air, snorted and his belly inflated and deflated during the nearly two hours it took him to die during his execution in Arizona in 2014.
Based on past court rulings, the inmates will also have to prove there's an alternative to the state's lethal injection method available that's likely to be less painful. The inmates' attorneys have argued those alternatives include firing squads and a barbiturate commonly used in physician-assisted suicide.
Bullets are cheaper and they do not feel a thing.
Who the hell cares? If you're a convicted murderer, I don't care about your comfort. Bring back the gallows.
They should suffer the same way their victims suffered.
Too f*****g bad.
Bummer, I’m sure their victims are upset
Did those same inmates care about there victims?!!! This is an insult to the American people! Time to stop the madness!!!!
They should out to death the same way they killed their victims. That would be fair.
Fuck’em! They had there chance.
A bullet fired from a high powered rife to the head of a murderer is quick lethal and painless. They will my know what hit them. firingsquads
I don’t feel bad for any of them. Did they consider what they put their victims through? Screw’em, let them suffer, they don’t deserve mercy or a pain free death.
Who cares!!!! Screw them...
I'd say we're overthinking it.
Just go back to a firing squad.
Who cares? Screw 'em... did they care when they killed their victims?
So, not because of justice. Arkansas 'raced to put eight inmates to death in 11 days before its batch expired'. Who cares if it was torture, just get it done. $20 worth of drugs might go to waste.
What's the difference if they are killed the same way they do their victims or even worst as they will pay anyway ;) realDonaldTrump
I read these replies and I wonder about the oops, wrong guy, and yes, there has been recorded oops.
What about the people they killed? They were never afforded the opportunity to “appeal” their method of execution.
Just like the US does, the criminals have more rights then their victims. Innocent people are in the ground and ripped from their families, but we are suppose to care these scumbags feel a little pain while they die. Bring back the chair then.
Proving once again that our Justice System sucks. Its Just a System. They should shoot the folks on Death Row in the head and throw them in a hole out back. Democrats say NO. Liberals that support tearing a baby apart in its mothers womb, worry about being mean to killers.
Who cares! How long did their victims suffer at their hands before they died? If death is their sentence, why does it have to be humane? They didn't care about their victims!
Just hang them
Color me heartless but maybe don’t do shit that’ll get you sentenced to death. Take an innocent life, and I couldn’t care less how you feel when you’re put down. Nexxxxxt
These inmates, are they murderers that tortured and executed their victims?
Load em up with fentanyl. They’ll suffocate happily.
Pelosi nephew GavinNewsom removes Death penalty in California against public vote. Would New Zealand terriorist if in CA qualify your amnesty? 2016 Proposition 62 and 66 - Ballots by the people voted to keep capital punishment. .
I could save him.....DO YOU SEE?
Do you think they cared if their victims were comfortable?
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