Amid the legal battle over Arkansas’ plan to execute as many as eight prisoners in 11 days, one of the judges that ruled against the state has angered death penalty supporters with a dramatic protest of capital punishment. On Friday, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen issued a temporary restraining order blocking Arkansas from using its supply of vecuronium bromide, one of three drugs in its lethal injection cocktail. Griffen granted the order after McKesson Medical-Surgical, which does not want its product used in executions, petitioned to stop the state on the grounds that the drug had been misleadingly obtained. Within an hour of issuing that order, Griffen joined anti-death penalty protesters gathered outside Republican Gov. Griffen was dressed as an inmate and bound to a cot with ropes to look like a condemned prisoner on a gurney.

Source: Huffington Post April 16, 2017 20:48 UTC