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| Arkansas Department Of Corrections Obtains Lethal Injection Drugs |
| By 5newsonline.com- Zuzanna Sitek and Dillon Thomas |
| Published: 08/14/2015 |
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LITTLE ROCK (KFSM) — The Arkansas Department of Corrections informed Attorney General Leslie Rutledge Wednesday (August 13) that it has obtained lethal-injection drugs and an official protocol for using them, according to a statement from her office. The next step is for Rutledge to provide names to the governor of inmates who have exhausted their appeals and ask that he set execution dates, according to the statement. The purchase of the drugs could mean an end to a 10-year hiatus on executions in the Natural State after appeals by death row inmates and disputes over the constitutionality of lethal-injection drugs and protocols. Steve Barnes of Reuters reports the drugs purchase by the ADC included midazolam, a sedative death penalty opponents have challenged as inappropriate for executions since it does not achieve the level of unconsciousness required for surgery. Read More. |
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