— The Latest on an effort by a drug distributor to prevent Arkansas from using its products in executions (all times local):4:20 p.m.A medical supply company’s challenge to Arkansas’ three-drug execution protocol remains alive, though the state doesn’t have enough drugs to put any inmate to death. The company won a preliminary injunction in April, but the Arkansas Supreme Court set the order aside and let the drug be used in four executions that month. ——2:25 p.m.A judge has opened a hearing on whether a drug distributor can prevent Arkansas from using one of its products in the execution chamber. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Alice Gray temporarily halted its use, but the state Supreme Court set aside the ruling. Arkansas subsequently executed four inmates in April, using McKesson’s paralytic lethal-injection drug as the second step of a three-drug process.

Source: National Post July 12, 2017 21:11 UTC