Subject: The debacle in Arkansas reaffirms that the death penalty is arbitrary, unchecked and unfair Sat Apr 22, 2017 1:13 am
Thursday night, the state of Arkansas executed Ledell Lee for the 1993 murder of 26-year-old Debra Reese. It was the first of what the state had initially hoped to be eight executions carried out over the course of 11 days. The reason for the binge is that the state’s supply of one of the drugs it uses in such executions is about to expire.