LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A judicial disciplinary panel has charged an Arkansas judge with ethics violations for demonstrating against the death penalty the same day he blocked the state from using a lethal injection drug. A three-member panel of the Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission on Friday formally charged Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen, who was photographed laying on a cot outside the governor’s mansion. Griffen has said he was participating in a prayer vigil.
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