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| Arkansas schedules first executions in 10 years but expects legal challenge |
| By theguardian.com |
| Published: 09/10/2015 |
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Arkansas will resume lethal injections after a 10-year gap starting next month with a double execution, Governor Asa Hutchinson said on Wednesday as he announced execution dates for eight death-row inmates. Arkansas hasn’t executed an inmate since 2005, largely because of court challenges to the state’s lethal injection law and a nationwide shortage in the drugs Arkansas has used during executions. But last week, the state attorney general, Leslie Rutledge, sent letters to the governor requesting that execution dates be set. Rutledge said the inmates’ appeals had been exhausted, and the state department of corrections said it had purchased enough doses of its lethal-injection drugs to perform the executions. Read More. |
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