Arkansas has executed Kenneth Williams, the fourth inmate it has put to death in eight days.
Williams was executed by lethal injection on Thursday night at the Cummins Unit prison in Varner.
A prison spokesman said three minutes after the injection began, Williams shook for about 10 seconds before being pronounced dead at 11.05pm.
A reporter from Associated Press who witnessed the execution said Williams had been "lurching, convulsing, coughing and jerking".
The 38-year-old was executed for the death of former deputy warden Cecil Boren, 57.
Williams had murdered Mr Boren after escaping from prison in 1999.
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