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2 Arkansas death-row inmates appeal to halt April injections
By arkansasonline.com- John Lynch
Published: 03/30/2017

Attorneys for two death-row inmates filed two petitions Wednesday seeking to halt their executions next month while Arkansas' attorney general argued in a separate case that prison officials should not be forced to disclose information about the drugs used in lethal injections.

The filings come 21 days before eight convicted killers are scheduled to die by lethal injection in Arkansas' first use of the death penalty since 2005. Arkansas has not executed anyone in more than a decade because of legal challenges to its method of death and difficulties in acquiring the necessary drugs.

In one lawsuit filed Wednesday, a national nonprofit law firm asked a circuit court judge in Jefferson County to consider inmate Bruce Ward's extreme schizophrenia as grounds for a permanent stay of execution.

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