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       ~ Ledell Lee, 20Apr17, (AR) ~
   DIR By: BuzzC
       Date: May 11, 2019, 3:52 pm
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       The state of Arkansas carried out its first execution in 12
       years on Thursday.
       Just before midnight, after a series of rejected appeals that
       reached all the way up to the Supreme Court, 51-year-old Ledell
       Lee was put to death by lethal injection.
       Lee lost consciousness around a minute after the execution
       started at 11:44pm. He was pronounced dead at 11:56pm showing no
       apparent signs of suffering.
       Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said that a federal
       appellate court had 'denied all requests from inmate Ledell Lee
       for a stay of his execution,' in a Twitter post at shortly after
       9pm, noting that a temporary stay issued earlier by the Supreme
       Court remained in place while more appeals were considered.
       But after 11pm, the U.S. Supreme Court issued orders denying the
       outstanding appeal requests, allowing the execution to proceed.
       The judges voted 5-4 against Lee's appeal that carrying out his
       execution constituted 'cruel and unusual punishment'. Neil
       Gorsuch, Trump's recent nominee to the court, voted with the
       majority.
       Lee was sentenced to death in 1995 for the murder of Debra
       Reese, who was beaten to death inside her home.
       Reese was struck 36 times with a tire tool her husband had given
       her for protection.
       The legal maneuvers frustrated Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson,
       who had set the execution schedule less than two months ago. The
       state's elected prosecutors also criticized the roadblocks to
       the execution plans.
       'Through the manipulation of the judicial system, these men
       continue to torment the victims' families in seeking, by any
       means, to avoid their just punishment,' the prosecutors said in
       a joint statement issued Thursday.
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