Arkansas Executes Inmate Jack Jones

Arkansas Public Media | By Ann Kenda

Published April 24, 2017 at 7:35 PM CDT

Arkansas inmate Jack Jones was pronounced dead at 7:20pm Thursday evening. Earlier in the day, he exhausted all appeals to state courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. Jones was executed for the 1995 slaying of bookkeeper and mother Mary Phillips in front of her 11-year-old daughter. Witnesses reported the execution via a three-drug lethal injection cocktail took about fourteen minutes.

Inmate Marcel Williams is expected to be executed tonight as well, making Arkansas the first state to carry out a double execution since 2000.

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Ann Kenda

Ann Kenda joined Arkansas Public Media in January 2017 from Sudbury, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Syracuse University and previously worked in public radio, commercial radio and newspaper in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. She focuses on health, justice, education and energy as part of the Arkansas Public Media team. Her stories can be found on the airwaves, ArkansasPublicMedia.org and social media.

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