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Eighth Circuit Refuses to Halt Arkansas Execution of Prisoner Who Claimed Lethal Injection Will Cause Him Extreme Pain

by Lonnie Burton

In April 2017, the state of Arkansas decided to fast track the execution of eight prisoners before its supply of lethal injection drugs became unavailable. Soon after Governor Asa Hutchinson signed execution orders that would schedule what was called assembly line executions for one week in April ...

 

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