Around 9:30 p.m., Baker lifted the stay and the state began preparations to execute Williams.
The state's attorney general denied the claims.
The United States saw its first double-execution in 17 years Monday night in Arkansas.
Williams was sent to death row for the 1994 rape and killing of 22-year-old Stacy Errickson, whom he kidnapped from a gas station in central Arkansas.
They claimed that Jones's death was "torturous and inhumane" and that he "was moving his lips and gulping for air".
A newly released document says officials spent less than 10 minutes inserting IV lines in the first inmate executed by Arkansas in a double execution Monday night.
A witness said Jones moved his lips briefly after the was injected with the drug midazolam.
She was not present for the execution. "It's a good thing that it's done, for her", Whitaker told CNN affiliate KARK.
In dramatic events that erupted a little over an hour after the first prisoner, Jack Jones, was put to death at 7pm, a federal judge stepped in and temporarily stayed the lethal injection of the second, Marcel Williams, on grounds that Jones' execution might have been unconstitutional. Jack Jones was 52-years-old.
Family members of the victims said they feel justice has finally come, but the agony of decades of appeals is very tough on them. "I'm glad that part of my life, that chapter is closed". "Jack Jones expressed his willingness to proceed today, and we hope this will help bring closure to the Phillips family".
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Jones, who was convicted of raping and killing Mary Phillips, 34, in 1995 and trying to murder her 11-year-old daughter, and found guilty of another rape and murder in Florida, reportedly took 14 minutes to die after the procedure began.
"She was sexually abused in every way possible and as she was suffering he took a cord off a coffee pot and strangled her".
In his final words, Jones apologised to the young girl he left for dead, now a grown woman. Marcel Williams, 24 at the time, forced her into his auto at gunpoint, drove her to several ATMs to make a total of 18 transactions, then raped her, strangled her in an abandoned storage shed, and buried her body in a shallow grave in North Little Rock. Her body was found in a shallow grave on December 5. Williams requested three piece of fried chicken, potato logs with ketchup, nachos with chili cheese and jalapenos, and two Mountain Dews. Asa Hutchinson grant him clemency. Last-minute appeals failed to stop the state's third execution in five days.
The inmates sued over the sedative used in the two-drug protocol.
Williams' attorney's submitted an emergency filing about his death. The lawsuit went to the Supreme Court, which ultimately denied their motion for a stay.
Both Williams and Jones had a number of health conditions, including diabetes and neuropathy, according to lawyers.
The first execution was carried out Thursday. Three were scheduled for this week, including the two on Monday.
Four are on hold pending appeal.
After a brief legal back-and-forth, two convicted Arkansas killers have been put to death. Lee maintained up until his death that he was innocent. The situation has drawn condemnation from across the country, as critics assert that the rush to put the inmates to death is preventing them from adequate legal review.
The human rights group Amnesty International called the killings "heinous" and "shameful".
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