FILE PHOTO: Inmate Ledell Lee is shown in this booking photo provided March 21, 2017. Courtesy Arkansas Department of Corrections/Handout via REUTERS/Files
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Arkansas executed its first inmate in 12 years on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the inmate's request to halt the lethal injection in a late-night ruling.
Ledell Lee, 51, was the first to be put to death out of a group of eight men that Arkansas originally planned to execute within a span of 11 days, before the expiration of one of the drugs the state uses for the lethal injection.
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