The national ACLU is distributing a video saying Arkansas is risking "torturing prisoners to death" in its "rush" to execute eight prisoners in 10 days.
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Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen ruled today that he had no choice based on a past Arkansas Supreme Court decision but to dismiss a lawsuit by Death Row inmates seeking to challenge the constitutionality of the state's lethal injection process.But the judge did so unhappily with sharp criticism of the Arkansas Supreme Court for failing to address critical points raised in the lawsuit.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson's 10-day schedule in April for eight executions continues to draw criticism, here from death penalty lawyers in the New York Times.
The New York Times editorial page today criticizes Arkansas's rush to execute eight people in 10 days in April because of vagaries in supplying the three drugs used in the lethal injection process.
Steve Barnes reports for Reuters that the office of Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said yesterday the state now has drugs at the ready for use in lethal injections.