Arkansas set to carry out final execution before drug expires

Washington (AFP) – Arkansas was set to execute another inmate on Thursday, the last in a series of lethal injections that the state has squeezed into a compressed timeline, even as the daughter of one of his victims appealed for clemency.
A plan by the conservative southern state to execute eight prisoners in 11 days — before its stock of a drug used in legal injections expires — set off a huge legal battle.
It was challenged not only by lawyers for the condemned men but also