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Arkansas Supreme Court lifts stay of Bruce Ward's execution

The Arkansas Supreme Court today, in a 5-2 decision, rejected Death Row inmate Bruce Ward's argument that he was entitled to the assistance of an independent psychiatrist in his defense.It lifted a stay of execution issued April 14, the day he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
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Judge Griffen retracts complaint against attorney general, makes case against discipline UPDATE

Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen said today that he'd belatedly learned Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's office HAD provided e-mail notice of its request to disqualify him from a case over lethal injection drugs
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Medical Board probes source of execution drugs

Here's anAP  account of news in the Democrat-Gazette this morning that the state Medical Board is investigating how the Correction Department came to obtain drugs used in recent executions.

UPDATE: Inmates' attorneys ask federal court for investigation of Arkansas executions. Judge OKs gathering of evidence.

UPDATED: A federal judge has ordered an autopsy and preservation of tissue and blood samples in response to a motion from attorneys for Kenneth Williams, who want to determine if he suffered during his execution Thursday night.
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New complaint filed in Kenneth Williams case

Lawyers for Kenneth Williams filed a new lawsuit this morning in Pulaski Circuit Court claiming that his execution tonight would cause unconstitutional cruel or unusual punishment.

State Supreme Court denies stay of Kenneth Williams' execution

The Arkansas Supreme Court in brief orders today denied petitions by Kenneth Williams for a stay in his scheduled execution at 7 p.m. Thursday.
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Drugmaker asked state last July not to use its drugs for capital punishment

Claudia Lauer of the Associated Press reports today that the manufacturer of the potassium chloride that is the killing agent in the state's three-drug death cocktail asked the Department of Correction last July not to use the drugs.

Lawsuit on execution drug likely to be dropped because of federal injunction

McKesson Medical-Surgical is asking for dismissal of the lawsuit that led to Judge Wendell Griffen's restraining order against use of one of three execution drugs.
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UPDATE: State appeals execution drug ruling, asks removal of Griffen as judge

The attorney general's office today asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to set aside Judge Wendell Griffen's temporary order against the use of a paralytic drug in state executions, an order that would have effectively stopped the killings. A federal judge's order later halted all executions for constitutional reasons.

Wendell Griffen's gift to Gov. Asa Hutchinson: Cover for a botched execution process

Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen served Gov. Asa Hutchinson and others a gift on a platter yesterday by participating in a death penalty protest outside the Governor's Mansion roughly an hour after he'd approved an order stopping use of one of three drugs used in executions and thus, effectively, halting six executions still scheduled to begin Monday. He provided cover for a state killing spree flawed from start to finish.
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A response from Judge Griffen; but much larger questions linger

Judge Wendell Griffen says he'll respond next week to ethics questions. Meanwhile, bigger questions linger, including what the governor knew about the prison system's dishonest hunt for killing drugs.

Griffen blocks use of execution drug, throws schedule into doubt. State objects to his hearing case

Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen this afternoon issued a temporary restraining order against the state's use of one of three execution drugs on a complaint by McKesson Medical-Surgical that the state had deceived the company to obtain a paralytic drug for execution, rather than health, uses. This decision calls the scheduled six executions into doubt, but the state plans an emergency appeal.
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