Federal Judge Dismisses Ark. Execution Challenge -- Opinion Eliminates Stay for Death Row Inmate

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LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas death-row inmates challenging the state's lethal injection procedures failed to show it subjected them to a significant risk of pain, a federal judge has ruled, likely blocking their last legal challenge to the method.

U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright's ruling this week found that Arkansas' execution method is "substantially similar" to the execution procedure in Kentucky, which was approved in a landmark Supreme Court decision in April.

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Federal Judge Dismisses Ark. Execution Challenge -- Opinion Eliminates Stay for Death Row Inmate

Her opinion also eliminated the only stay stopping the execution of death-row inmate Don William Davis.

Meanwhile, Gov. Mike Beebe said h...

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