- Safi Bello
Arkansas executes first of 2 death row inmates scheduled to die
CNN ------- Arkansas has executed Jack Harold Jones for the 1995 rape and murder of Mary Phillips, the first of two executions scheduled Monday night. "The Phillips family has waited far too long to see justice carried out, and I pray they find peace tonight," Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said after the execution. Jones was the first of two inmates scheduled for execution Monday, in the state's first double execution since 1999. Marcel Williams, who was convicted in the 1994 rape and murder of Stacy Errickson, is scheduled to follow Jones. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.