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Eighth Circuit Denies Stay of Execution to Arkansas Prisoner Who Claimed His Obesity Created Risk of Severe Pain

by Lonnie Burton

On April 24, 2017, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a series of rulings paving the way for the state of Arkansas to continue killing its prisoners via lethal injection at an alarming rate before the drugs used in lethal injections become unavailable. In this ...

 

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