Editing Ricky Ray Rector (section)

===Execution===
Rector was executed by [[lethal injection]]. It took medical staff more than fifty minutes to find a suitable vein.<ref name="Clarence"/> The curtain remained closed between Rector and the witnesses, but some reported they could hear Rector moaning. The administrator of the State Department of Corrections Medical Program said "the moans did come as a team of two medical people—that had grown to five—worked on both sides of his body to find a vein. That may have contributed to his occasional outbursts." The state later attributed the difficulty in finding a suitable vein to Rector's great weight and to his having been administered an [[antipsychotic]] medication.

Rector was the third person executed by the state of Arkansas since ''[[Furman v. Georgia]]'',<ref>''Furman v. Georgia'', {{ussc|408|238|1972}}</ref> after new capital punishment laws were passed in Arkansas, which came into force on March 23, 1973.