(AP) – The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected an effort to
invalidate orders setting executions for eight death row inmates, saying there's
no stay preventing the executions from taking place.
The state's highest court on Thursday granted Attorney General Leslie
Rutledge's request to clarify that there is no stay for the eight men who are
scheduled to be put to death in April. The inmates' attorneys had argued a stay
was still in place since an amended complaint over Arkansas' lethal injection
law was pending in a lower court.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday set four double executions during a 10-day
period in April, although the state is lacking one of the drugs needed to put
the men to death.
invalidate orders setting executions for eight death row inmates, saying there's
no stay preventing the executions from taking place.
The state's highest court on Thursday granted Attorney General Leslie
Rutledge's request to clarify that there is no stay for the eight men who are
scheduled to be put to death in April. The inmates' attorneys had argued a stay
was still in place since an amended complaint over Arkansas' lethal injection
law was pending in a lower court.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday set four double executions during a 10-day
period in April, although the state is lacking one of the drugs needed to put
the men to death.
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