LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTAL/KMSS) – Faith leaders of Arkansas join together to stop the use of the gas method in executions.
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They are calling on Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders to halt the new law that authorizes nitrogen gas executions for death row inmates.
“We implore you to explore the realities of what suffocation by gas entails. The trauma, the suffering, the inhumanity of this process,” said Reverend Betsy Singleton Snyder, ordained elder in the United Methodist Church of Arkansas.
The reverends, pastors, and fathers from different major religious congregations took to the Arkansas State Capitol on Thursday, pleading with Governor Sanders to halt Act 302, which allows for nitrogen gas executions.
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“To kill a person in order to send the message of that we believe that killing is wrong is a ridiculous notion. It’s so ridiculous it forces us to ask different questions so that we can figure out the real why as to what is happening,” said Reverend Dr. Denise Denell, New Beginnings of Central Arkansas…