https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/04/07/with-lethal-injection-drugs-expiring-arkansas-plans-unprecedented-seven-executions-in-11-days/
The Washington Post wrote:
Arkansas is preparing to execute seven death row inmates in 11 days this month before the state’s deadly drugs expire, an unprecedented number of lethal injections in such a narrow window.
The hurried schedule has prompted unease from the state’s Republican governor, lawsuits from the condemned inmates, and criticism from an array of former corrections officials nationwide.
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...authorities are struggling to find the drugs used in lethal injections amid a shortage spurred in part by drugmakers’ objections to the death penalty.
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Attorneys for the inmates have filed challenges questioning the scheduled pace and the particular drugs used. But the rush of work is “overwhelming,” said Julie Vandiver, an assistant federal public defender in Little Rock, who is representing some of the inmates.
“This is not the way that it should go,” Vandiver said. “The end stage of litigation is very important, and when an execution warrant is signed, there are all kinds of processes that start up.”
She pointed to clemency petitions, which can only be contemplated after an execution date is set. She dismissed the state’s argument that it has a deadline approaching, calling the deadline “manufactured” and noting that the state has gotten drugs before and can get them again.
Vandiver said the schedule “creates an impossible situation for all the people involved,” including the corrections officials who “are going to have to execute these people.”
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...corrections officials also worry that the pace “will increase the chance” of a mistake. They pointed to the last state that intended to carry out two executions in one night: Oklahoma, which bungled the execution...
In a state review, authorities wrote that the execution team placed the IV incorrectly and that officials involved described a feeling of extra stress and urgency because a second execution was scheduled for the same night.
This just seems so wrong, to me. I feel if they can't do it properly, then they shouldn't do it, at all (I left-out a couple of statements about how mistakes were made in other executions, and how the men were, basically, tortured, because of those mistakes, because it might not be good for some of us to read----so, be forewarned, if you choose to read the article).
I know some people----especially the families of the victims----will say "kill 'em, anyway"; but, Charlie Rose had this on his program, today, and I heard another angle. I understand this drags things out for the families of the victims; but, like I said, I don't feel this is doing things, correctly.
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19 Apr 2017, 8:37 pm
