(AP) – Arkansas is appealing a judge’s decision to allow a
medical supply company’s attempt to prevent the state from using one of its
execution drugs to move forward.
medical supply company’s attempt to prevent the state from using one of its
execution drugs to move forward.
The state on Friday filed a notice that it is appealing Pulaski County Circuit
Judge Alice Gray’s order denying the state’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit by
McKesson Medical-Surgical Inc. McKesson is seeking an order preventing the state
from using its supply of vecuronium bromide, one of three drugs used in
Arkansas’ lethal injection process.
The state is already appealing an April order by Gray blocking the drug’s use.
The state Supreme Court stayed that ruling, which allowed Arkansas to resume
executions for the first time in nearly 12 years. Gray denied the state’s motion
to dismiss last week.
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