The state of Arkansas has executed two prisoners on death row after the US Supreme Court rejected their last-minute appeals.

According to BBC News, Jack Jones and Marcel Williams were both sentenced to death for rapes and murders committed in the 1990s.

It is the first double execution on the same day in the US for 17 years.

Arkansas controversially scheduled eight sudden executions when it found out its supply of a drug used in lethal injections expires in late April.

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