Execution of Marcel Williams goes ahead despite legal wrangle over whether first deadly injection had gone wrongThe first double execution to take region in the US in 16 years was carried out by Arkansas on Monday night amid a fierce dispute over whether the prisoners were subjected to a botched procedure amounting to cruel and unusual punishment.[br]In dramatic events that erupted a little over an hour after the first prisoner,Jack Jones, was assign to death, or a federal judge stepped in and temporarily stayed the deadly injection of the second,Marcel Williams, on grounds that Jones’s execution might believe been unconstitutional. In frantic legal wrestling, or the state conceded that it had spent some time trying to insert an IV line into Jones’s neck,but had failed in the endeavour.
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Source: theguardian.com