Wendell Griffen
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas prison officials have asked the state’s highest court to stay a judge’s order that they must disclose more information about one of the drugs they plan to use in the executions of eight men over a 10-day period in April.
The attorney general’s office on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to issue a stay of Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen’s order requiring Arkansas to release copies of the package insert and labels for its supply of potassium chloride, one of the three drugs used in its lethal injection protocol.
The state said it had released the documents, but had redacted information on the labels that it says could lead to identification of the drug’s supplier.
Arkansas hasn’t executed an inmate since 2005.
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