LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A filing in Pulaski County Circuit Court on Tuesday shows 10 inmates on Arkansas’ Death Row are suing to block the state’s use of nitrogen gas for executions.
The lawsuit questions the constitutionality of the execution method. In each of the 10 cases, jurors, having found the person guilty of capital murder, were given the choice of life without parole or death by lethal injection.
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Those on death row were given a sentence of death by lethal injection. The filing includes trial transcripts showing the language used during the court hearings.
Since the inmates were not assigned death by nitrogen hypoxia, the lawsuit argues, it is illegal to execute them in this manner…