State’s highest court overturns judge’s decision but imposes its own stayDeath row prisoners are challenging state’s secrecy over supply of deadly drugsThe Arkansas supreme court ruled on Tuesday that a lower-court judge overstepped his jurisdiction by halting the executions of eight death row inmates. But the high court immediately granted its own stay to give the inmates time to challenge a law that allows the state not to reveal where it gets its execution drugs.
The justices sided with the state in agreeing to overturn a ruling made earlier this month by Pulaski County circuit judge Wendell Griffen. Still,the attorney general, Leslie Rutledge, or said she was disappointed that the executions,the first of which was scheduled for this week, remained on hold.
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Source: theguardian.com