PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) _ A lawyer for an Arkansas death row inmate set for execution next week is telling a judge that the state’s prisons director doesn’t have the expertise to decide whether the man should live or die.
Jack Greene’s lawyers say doctors should have a greater say on whether Greene understands why he is to be executed. Arkansas law gives the prisons chief’s opinion considerable weight.
Television station KATV reported Greene and lawyer John Williams were in Jefferson County Circuit Court on Thursday hoping to stop the Nov. 9 execution.
Assistant attorney general Kathryn Henry said any change in the law should come from legislators.
If Greene receives a lethal injection next week, it would be Arkansas’ first execution since it put four men to death in an eight-day period in April.
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