Arkansas executes murderers Jack Jones and Marcel Williams

The US state of Arkansas has executed two prisoners on death row after the Supreme Court rejected their last-minute appeals.
 
Jack Jones and Marcel Williams were both sentenced to death for rapes and murders committed in the 1990s.

Arkansas controversially scheduled eight sudden executions when it found out its supply of a drug used in lethal injections expires late April. 

It is the first double execution on the same day in the US for 17 years.

Human rights groups, defence lawyers, and drug companies all objected to the decision.
  
SOURCE: BBC NEWS