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Arkansas Prepares For First Double Execution In U.S. Since 2000

The state planned to kill eight death row inmates in 11 days. After a flurry of legal challenges, three executions were stayed and one was carried out. The next two deaths are scheduled for Monday.

Arkansas is preparing to execute two death row inmates on Monday night, after a flurry of legal challenges, court rulings and reversals complicated the state's unprecedented plan to execute eight men by lethal injection in 11 days.

Of the four executions scheduled prior to today, three were

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