The four lethal injections that were carried out included Monday’s first double execution in the United States since 2000. A Friday morning tweet from the account of a Republican state Sen. Trent Garner, who witnessed the execution, said Williams did not “seem in pain. State officials have called Arkansas’ string of executions a success, declaring justice served and “closure” for victims’ families. “The long path of justice ended tonight and Arkansans can reflect on the last two weeks with confidence that our system of laws in this state has worked,” Hutchinson said in a statement issued after Williams’ execution. Williams was sentenced to death for killing Boren after escaping from the Cummins Unit prison in a barrel holding a mishmash of kitchen scraps.

Source: National Post April 28, 2017 12:56 UTC