A death row prisoner in Arkansas is begging the state to kill him, but his death wish is being stalled by a lawsuit from 10 other inmates trying to stop a highly controversial execution method.

Scotty Gardner, 60, has been on death row since his speedy conviction in 2018 for strangling his girlfriend to death with a curling iron cord and stealing her valuables to go gambling at a nearby casino.

Before his death sentence, Gardner was previously convicted of attempted murder and served time for repeatedly shooting his ex-wife while she was six months pregnant in 1990. 3

Now, Gardner is begging for the sweet release of death so he can finally leave “his cave” — a shoddy cell plagued with mold, poor plumbing, and “a sink and drain in the floor that bugs crawl in and out constantly,” he

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