Arkansas Plans to Execute Seven People This Month, Continuing Long Tradition of Assembly-Line Killing

Summary: On April 17, the state ofArkansas plans to killDon Davis and Bruce Earl Ward, two men who have been ondeath row since the early 1990s. Neither has applied for clemency. Bothwilldie on the same gurney, back to back, if all goes according to plan. Executioners will startby injecting themwith asedative called midazolam, never before usedby the state, but which issupposed to render themunconscious for the two lethal drugs to follow.