New Jersey-based West-Ward Pharmaceuticals last month closed its account with the Arkansas Department of Correction after learning that the state planned to use drugs it had purchased from the company for executions.

The inmates filed a modified complaint on Friday that asks a judge to declare that the Arkansas Department of Correction can't use a 2013 execution law to put them to death, but instead must follow a 1983 law.

"The Department of Community Corrections and the Arkansas Parole Board will do a thorough review of the specific case in question," a statement from his office said.

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... to the Department of Correction to pick the drug. The AP first reported in April that Arkansas planned to use an anti-seizure drug called phenobarbital in executions, even though that chemical has never been used in a lethal injection in the United ...

The inmates filed a modified complaint on Friday that asks a judge to declare that the Arkansas Department of Correction can't use a 2013 execution law to put them to death, but instead must follow a 1983 law.

"The Department of Community Corrections and the Arkansas Parole Board will do a thorough review of the specific case in question," a statement from his office said.

An official with the state Department of Correction said Monday that Arkansas plans to consider using different drugs in lethal injections after the state lost its account with a pharmaceutical company that supplied it with drugs earlier this year ...

Tweet. The Arkansas Department of Correction plans to rewrite its lethal injection protocol after the supplier of the drug it planned to use said last month it would not sell the department any more of it, a department spokesman said Monday.

However, the new law leaves it up to the Department of Correction to pick the drug. The AP first reported in April that Arkansas planned to use an anti-seizure drug called phenobarbital in executions, even though that chemical has never been used in a ...