LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ An Arkansas judge prohibited from handling
execution-related cases after he participated in an anti-death penalty
demonstration is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider a panel’s decision
to dismiss his lawsuit challenging his disqualification.
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen asked the full 8th Circuit U.S.
Court of Appeals on Monday to take up the case stemming from the
demonstration last year, which occurred the same day he blocked Arkansas from
using a lethal injection drug over claims its supplier had been misled by the
state. During the demonstration, Griffen was strapped to a cot and wore an
anti-death penalty button.
A three-judge panel of the appeals court earlier this month dismissed Griffen’s
lawsuit against the state’s seven Supreme Court justices over their order
disqualifying him from death penalty cases.
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