Arkansas governor sets execution dates after 10-year gap
Source: Associated Press
Arkansas governor sets execution dates after 10-year gap
Claudia Lauer, Associated Press
Updated 4:54 pm, Wednesday, September 9, 2015
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas will resume lethal injections after a 10-year gap with a double execution next month, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday as he announced execution dates for eight death-row inmates.
Arkansas hasn't executed an inmate since 2005, largely because of court challenges to the state's lethal injection law and a nationwide shortage of drugs that Arkansas has used during executions.
But last week, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge sent letters to the governor requesting that execution dates be set. Rutledge said the inmates' appeals had been exhausted, and the state Department of Correction said it had enough doses of its lethal-injection drugs to perform the executions.
Hutchinson set four dates through January, meaning two men are scheduled to be executed on each date. But he acknowledged that challenges are likely.
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