Fourth Execution in Arkansas Brought Peaceful Closure

The state of Arkansas in the United States has performed another good service to its constituents by executing a convicted criminal Kenneth Williams last 27 April.

As expected, his lawyer Shawn Nolan try to stir up controversy by falsely alleging that the lethal injection procedure was "horrifying".

Arkansas Showed It Can Execute Criminals Easily

The state of Arkansas in the United States showed how to save the taxpayers money by giving two inmates lethal injections on the same gurney. Both were executed about three hours apart as Arkansas completed the nation's first double execution since 2000, just days after the state ended a nearly 12-year hiatus on administering capital punishment.

While the first inmate, Jack Jones, 52, was executed on schedule, shortly after 7 P.M., attorneys for the second, Marcel Williams, 46, convinced a federal judge minutes later to briefly delay his execution over concerns about how the earlier one was carried out. They claimed Jones "was moving his lips and gulping for air," an account the state's attorney general denied, but the judge lifted her stay about an hour later and Williams was pronounced dead at 10:33 P.M.

U.S. ICE Finally Steps Up Arrests Of Illegals

As most Americans expected, President Donald Trump is bent on delivering on one of the core promises he made during the campaign which got him elected: to arrest illegals and ensure that they face the fall brunt of the law.

New data obtained by the Washington Post's Maria Sacchetti show that during the first several weeks of the Trump administration (through 13 March), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 21,362 illegal immigrants — including more than 15,00 with criminal records that can stretch forever.

Swedes Want To Curb Number of Migrants

Among the Europeans, Swedes are known for their tolerant society. However, the deadly truck rampage a few days ago by a frustrated asylum-seeker left many questioning whether the country's open-door policy for refugees swung open too far.

"We've taken in more than we can help, and I don't think that's OK," said Anna Lennartsdotter Lindbom, 42, a personal trainer in the Stockholm suburb of Alvsjö. "If we don’t get them to understand how our society works when they have grown up under a different system — that can be a problem."

Swedish Terror Suspect Sympathizes With ISIS

The Uzbek man who was suspected of ramming a truck into a crowd in Stockholm, killing four people, had expressed sympathy for Islamic State and was wanted for failing to comply with a deportation order, Swedish police said last 9 April.

Two sources who had worked with the suspect, Rakhmat Akilov, independently identified him to Reuters from images distributed by police as the manhunt got underway last 7 April.