Arkansas official: State has drugs to conduct 8 executions

     (AP) – An Arkansas prisons spokesman says the state has
obtained enough doses of a lethal drug to execute eight inmates next month.
     Arkansas uses three drugs in its execution protocol, but its supply of
potassium chloride had expired in January. Arkansas Department of Correction
spokesman Solomon Graves said Monday that the state now has enough potassium
chloride to conduct the eight executions, set to take place over a 10-day period
in April.
     The state hasn't executed an inmate since 2005, but Gov. Asa Hutchinson has
scheduled four sets of double executions to occur before another drug,
midazolam, expires in April.
     Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court said it wouldn't review Arkansas' lethal
injection law, which paved the way for the executions to resume.