Arkansas has executed the first of two death row members as part of Monday night’s double lethal injection.
Jack Jones was put to death at the Cummins Unit after the Supreme Court denied his final request for a stay.
Marcel Williams is set to die later on Monday night. It is the first double-execution in the nation since 2000.
Jones was sentenced to death for the 1995 rape and killing of Mary Phillips and the brutal beating of her 11-year-old daughter. He strangled the mother a cord to a coffee pot.
Before he was executed, he ate a last meal of of fried chicken, potato logs with tartar sauce, beef jerky bites, three candy bars, a chocolate milkshake and fruit punch.
In a letter earlier this month, Jones said he was ready to be killed by the state.
‘I forgive my executioners; somebody has to do it,’ wrote Jones, who had a leg amputated in prison because of diabetes and uses a wheelchair.
The letter, which his attorney read aloud at his clemency hearing, went on to say: ‘I shall not ask to be forgiven, for I haven’t the right.’
Williams was sent to death row for the 1994 rape and killing of 22-year-old Stacy Errickson, whom he kidnapped from a gas station in central Arkansas.
Source: Arkansas executes first death row inmate | Daily Mail Online
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