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| Execution of eight Arkansas inmates can go ahead, supreme court rules |
| By theguardian.com |
| Published: 06/24/2016 |
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Arkansas can execute eight death-row inmates, a split state supreme court ruled on Thursday in upholding a state law that keeps information about its lethal injection drugs confidential. However, the state has only seven days before one of the drugs needed for the three-drug protocol expires, and it isn’t clear when Arkansas will be able to resume its first executions since 2005. Arkansas’ attorney general, Leslie Rutledge, said she would request new execution dates once the stays were lifted on the eight inmate executions. For the stays to be lifted before the drugs expire, Rutledge must ask the court to expedite the certification process, one which usually puts the ruling into effect 18 days after it is issued. Read More. |
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