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| Arkansas prison system says deal with death row inmates over drug secrecy not a contract |
| By therepublic.com- Claudia Lauer |
| Published: 10/06/2015 |
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — An agreement to tell Arkansas' condemned inmates the source of its execution drugs isn't technically a contract and a judge should dismiss a lawsuit challenging a new death penalty law, the state's prison director said in a court filing Monday. An attorney for Arkansas Department of Correction Director Wendy Kelley filed the motion to dismiss a complaint from eight death row inmates who argue that the law passed earlier this year, which allows the state to withhold the source of the lethal drugs, is unconstitutional. Jeff Rosenzweig, an attorney for the inmates, has said the prisoners fear the secrecy could lead to cruel or unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. He also said the law violates a contracts clause in the Arkansas Constitution because the state, when settling a previous lawsuit, agreed to tell inmates the source of its lethal drugs. The contracts clause forbids laws from being passed to specifically negate terms of a contract. Read More. |
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