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    Courts Block 7 Executions Set For 11-Day Span In Arkansas

    A county judge and the state supreme court ordered the state not to put the inmates to death. The larger case challenges lethal drugs. The other argues that the inmate is not sane.
    by Colin Dwyer Apr 14, 2017 2 minutes
    This combination of undated photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows the death row inmates in question. Top row (from left): Jack Harold Jones Jr., Marcel Williams, Stacey E. Johnson, Ledell Lee. Bottom row (from left): Jason F. McGehee, Kenneth Williams, Don Davis and Bruce Earl Ward. McGehee's execution was blocked by federal judge last week.

    A judge in Arkansas has issued an order blocking the state from executing six men next week, starting Monday night.

    The state's compressed schedule had drawn widespread attention — for both the pace of the executions and the manner in which the state obtained the drugs it planned to use in the lethal injections.

    The temporary restraining order by Pulaski County Judge Wendell Griffen followed one earlier Friday

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