Arkansas preps for 8 executions in 10 days

By Jennifer Cruz

Top row (from left): Jack Harold Jones Jr., Marcel Williams, Stacey E. Johnson, Ledell Lee. Bottom row (from left): Jason F. McGehee, Kenneth Williams, Don Davis and Bruce Earl Ward. (Photo: Arkansas Department of Correction)
In less than two weeks, Arkansas is set to execute more than half dozen death row inmates in just 10 days, and while the number of executions isn’t necessarily unusual, the speed in which they are planned to be conducted is causing concern for some.
Currently, the Arkansas Department of Correction houses 34 death row inmates, eight of which are scheduled to be executed later this month. The executions are set to take place from April 17 to April 27, with two executions scheduled per day for four of the 10 days, an amount no state has seen in more than 40 years.
Set to be executed are Jack Harold Jones Jr., Marcel Williams, Stacey E. Johnson, Ledell Lee, Jason F. McGehee, Kenneth Williams, Don Davis, and Bruce Earl Ward. All were convicted of murder, with some spending more than two decades on death row.
The rush for the executions come as the state’s supply of midazolam, a sedative and one of three drugs used in the lethal

Source: Guns.com