(AP) – A senior European Union official is urging Arkansas
Governor Asa Hutchinson to cancel Thursday’s planned execution of inmate Kenneth
Williams.The letter from EU Ambassador to the U.S. David O’Sullivan was delivered
Wednesday to the governor’s office. It says Williams’ attorneys should have the
chance to prove whether he was intellectually disabled and thus, ineligible for
the death penalty.
Governor Asa Hutchinson to cancel Thursday’s planned execution of inmate Kenneth
Williams.The letter from EU Ambassador to the U.S. David O’Sullivan was delivered
Wednesday to the governor’s office. It says Williams’ attorneys should have the
chance to prove whether he was intellectually disabled and thus, ineligible for
the death penalty.
The EU opposes capital punishment, and many European drugmakers have blocked
states from using their products in lethal injections.
Williams would be the fourth inmate put to death in eight days, a schedule
that Hutchinson set because one of Arkansas’ lethal injection drugs is about to
expire.
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