Federal Judge In Arkansas Blocks Series of Executions

A US federal judge on Saturday blocked a plan by the southern state of Arkansas to execute a series of inmates there over a 10-day period this month, citing a constitutional amendment banning “cruel and unusual punishment.” The state’s Republican governor, Asa Hutchinson, had argued that the executions — which would have been the state’s … Read more

Arkansas Multiple Execution Plan Faces Legal Setbacks

Arkansas’s plans to execute eight prisoners in just 10 days faced new setbacks Friday, after a judge blocked use of a key lethal injection drug and one of the inmates got a top court reprieve. Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Wendell Griffen issued a temporary restraining order barring authorities in the southern US state from … Read more