Arkansas’ candidates for governor ignore warning from botched execution

Source Scout · Arkansas Advocate reports: A view of the death chamber from the witness room at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility shows an electric chair and gurney in 2001. (Photo by Mike Simons/Getty Images) Given how much law-and-order rhetoric has become standard GOP talking points in Arkansas, it’s surprising that the state’s most outspoken opponent of the death penalty was also its first Republican governor after Reconstruction. One of the last acts Winthrop Rockefeller performed as Arkansas governor was his 1970 decision to commute the death sentences of 15 men awaiting execution.

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