jackjones who was among the group to be executed. among the group to be executed. i know a lot of people have the given him in that kind of stuff. that's my business if ido kind of stuff. that's my business if i do it. so they can protest all they want, it don't matter. all of they want, it don't matter. all of the men due to be executed are being held in this prison and officials here are determined that in spite of the legal challenges and the outrage, they will be put to death as soon as outrage, they will be put to death as soon as possible. there are some around the world who will view is certainly this number of executions ina certainly this number of executions in a short space of time as barbaric. what would you say to those people? that would be a question for our governor in terms of what timing the executions were rats. we do have one of the drugs in our free rats. we do have one of the drugs in ourfree drug rats. we do have one of the drugs in our free drug protocol that is expiring at the end of the month, hence why the

lawyer, saying that this drug causes suffering and it appears, according to lawyers, that actually jackjonesxecution. the family of victim said that they do not mind if he suffered a bit because our relative, my wife, suffered when he was assaulting her. of course it is the responsibility of the state, if they are to put people to death, to do so humanely. there are so many people now saying lethal injection is not a humane way to do this. last night, lawyers said that it took 41 minutes at least, maybe more, to try and put an intravenous line into jackjones ‘s neck and it was unsuccessful and thatis neck and it was unsuccessful and that is why when the next execution was due to happen, it was stayed at the very last minute. the next person to be executed, marcel williams, was on the bed ready to be executed when he was told there was a stay of execution, but one hour later he was brought back and they carried on with that execution. later he was brought back and they carried on with that executionm the intention for five carried on with that executionm the intention forfive more men to die

the first to die was jackjones, who was convicted over 20 years ago of raping and strangling mary phillips—year—old daughter. a local reporter was witness to his execution. jack jones was strapped to a gurney, had a sheet on him from about the neck down. his head was kind of clamped, i guess. he spoke for about two minutes. all we could really see was him breathing a little bit, and then, you know, it took him about 1k minutes to pass. the second man, marcel williams, was convicted of the 1997 kidnapping, rape and murder of stacy errickson. screen. to those i hurt, i'm sorry it is not enough. williams was already in the death chamber when a brief stay of execution came through. lawyers pointed to complications in the first execution. they said it had taken workers 45 minutes to unsuccessfully insert a central line injackjones's neck. but the court ruled that the execution could proceed. the state of arkansas had originally wanted to put to death all of these eight men before the end of the month. an unprecedented rate of executions. and the reason for the rush is that that's when the expir

the first to be executed was jackjones, who had been convicted of rape, murder and attempted murder.ng to carry out the death sentence for marcel williams, who was convicted of kidnap, rape and murder. they are among eight inmates that the state plan to execute in 11 days this month, due to the impending expiration date of the supplies of aid drug used in the executions. —— aid drug used in the executions. —— a drug. france has now entered a period of intense political campaigning between emmanuel macron and marine le pen, the two remaining candidates for the presidency. it's a race that's already transformed the old patterns of french politics — with potentially significant consequences for the future of france and the eu. our europe editor katya adler has the latest. emmanuel macron, looking presidential. a bit prematurely, perhaps. there's a lot of glad—handing still to be done, two weeks to go before the final vote. financial markets in brussels may think president macron is a done deal. but she doesn't. marine le pen, macron‘s rivalfor president, his rival for french voters‘ tru

the convicted men, jackjones and marcel williams, were both sentenced to death for rapes and murdersports. the legal authorities in arkansas say the two prisoners were executed by lethal injection after final legal appeals were rejected by the courts. the first to die was jackjones, who was convicted over 20 years ago of raping and strangling mary phillips, and attempting to murder her 11—year—old daughter. a local reporter was witness to his execution. jack jones was strapped to a gurney, had a sheet on him from about the neck down. his head was kind of clamped, i guess. he spoke for about two minutes. all we could really see was him breathing a little bit, and then, you know, it took him about 1a minutes to pass. the second man, marcel williams, was convicted of the 1997 kidnapping, rape and murder of stacy errickson. williams was already in the death chamber when a brief stay of execution came through. lawyers pointed to complications in the first execution. they said it had taken workers a5 minutes to unsuccessfully insert a central line injackjones's neck. but the court ruled th

jackjones was the first to be put to death. he was convicted of rape, murder and attempted murder.cel williams was given a temporary stay before his execution. williams was convicted of kidnap, rape and murder. they are among eight inmates arkansas originally planned to execute in just 11 days this month, because its supply of one of the drugs used in the lethal injection cocktail expires at the end of april. the battle against so—called islamic state is intensifying in syria, as forces move towards the group's stronghold of raqqa. territory which has been under is control is being retaken, including dabiq, which featured heavily in the group's propaganda videos. our middle east correspondent quentin sommerville and cameraman fred scott have been to the town in northern syria, and sent this report. in northern aleppo, the so—called islamic state predicted the end of days. and here, it has come to pass. this is hallowed ground for is. but it is no longer theirs. the tiny village of dabiq was a beacon, drawing in foreign fighters from across the globe. dabiq was a great symbol for th

and if iraq in the case of jackjones, several grounds.cifically with this substance midazolam is that it is not usually sufficient to avoid pain and torture when used with the other drugs. and we don't know if it worked that way or not in mrjones's case. another reason of course is that the execution of the death sentence is often imposed arbitrarily and capriciously. in mr jones's case in particular, the arkansas supreme court had analysed a particular issue in his case differently and to the detriment of mrjones. differently differently and to the detriment of mr jones. differently than differently and to the detriment of mrjones. differently than it had donein mrjones. differently than it had done in similar cases with the same issue. i would get into the specifics of it but mrjones's case deviates from the way the arkansas supreme court has analysed a particular issue involving contradictory findings by the jury or inconsistent findings by the jury. but we were never able to convince the court that that was wrong. i do have to say tha

yesterday it looked like the first execution of a man named jackjones, a convicted rapist and murdererthe second man was brought him he was in the execution chamber, on the padded bed, and suddenly at that point he was told that there was a stay of execution because there had been problems with the first execution according to lawyers. you have been down in arkansas covering the story, i know our viewers around the world will look at this and think it is barbaric. so many execution is happening so fast because the drug about to expire. but the drug companies are distancing themselves from what arkansas is doing as well. that is why i think it will become even more difficult for states to put people to death. not only was that action about the fact that there are suffering involved for some of these people but now the drug companies are saying we do not wa nt to drug companies are saying we do not want to sell these drugs to states any more because now we know what they're used for. they were sold to be states on a medicinal basis because they were going to be used for therapeutic uses.