LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas prison officials say their search for new
lethal injection drugs is on hold until the Legislature adds manufacturers to a
law keeping the state’s suppliers of execution drugs secret.The Department of Correction said on Wednesday it hasn’t been actively looking
for execution drugs since March, citing recent rulings by the state Supreme
Court that a 2015 law does not allow officials to withhold the identities of
drug manufacturers. Gov. Asa Hutchinson has said he supports a proposal by the
department that would keep manufacturers’ identities secret.
Arkansas does not have a supply of vecuronium bromide, one of the three drugs
used in the lethal injection process. Its supply of the drug expired in March.
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