US Supreme Court rejects Arkansas' 9 death row challengers

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     (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by

Arkansas inmates to stop their executions over claims that their deaths would be

“intolerably painful.”

     The nine inmates asked the justices to review an Arkansas Supreme Court

decision upholding a law that keeps secret the source of the lethal injection

drugs. Justices on Tuesday handed down decisions in the Arkansas case, plus

several other death row cases nationwide.

     Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge says she will ask Gov. Asa

Hutchinson to set execution dates for the inmates whose appeals have been

exhausted.

     Arkansas has not executed an inmate since 2005 because of legal challenges and

the difficulty of obtaining execution drugs. One of Arkansas’ execution drugs

expired last month and an agency spokesman said Tuesday it had not acquired

additional doses.




   

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