Arkansas officials are contesting legal rulings that blocked the state from carrying out its plan to put to death at least half a dozen inmates within a span of days. The Arkansas attorney general’s office is asking a federal appeals court in St. Louis to vacate a federal judge’s Saturday order that put a series of back-to-back executions on hold. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker granted eight condemned inmates a preliminary...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 16, 2017 20:03 UTC