Arkansas Online: LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas' highest court Thursday upheld the state's lethal-injection law as constitutional, removing a major roadblock to resuming executions that have been effectively on hold in the state for nearly a decade.
The Arkansas Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, reversed Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell's Griffen's ruling that the 2013 law gave the state Correction Department too much leeway to decide what drugs to use and how they should be administered. Griffen had ruled in a lawsuit brought by nine death-row inmates.
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