Killer force fed drugs to keep him sane for execution

A death row inmate in Arkansas is being forcibly given anti-psychotic drugs that make him mentally competent to be executed.

Killer force fed drugs to keep him sane for execution

A death row inmate in Arkansas is being forcibly given anti-psychotic drugs that make him mentally competent to be executed.

Murderer Charles Singleton’s most recent appeal failed in the US Supreme Court, when the justices refused to review a lower court ruling that the forced medication was acceptable.

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