Asa Hutchinson in a letter dated Tuesday, April 11, to modify the state's schedule for putting the inmates to death to allow for adequate time between executions.
Attorneys for Don Davis and Bruce Ward asked justices to block their executions, scheduled for Monday, while the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a case concerning access to independent mental health experts by defendants.
The contemporary case considered by the country's highest court is of particular interest to the two Arkansas inmates because Davis is thought to have an IQ so low that he is intellectually disabled and Ward has a long history of mental illness that includes paranoid schizophrenia.
An Arkansas judge says she won't stay the execution of one of the first inmates facing lethal injection under the state's plan to put seven men to death by the end of the month.
Attorneys for the two inmates filed a motion Wednesday saying the two were not granted access to independent mental health experts in their trials.
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Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's office said she's reviewing the filing but continues to expect the executions will go ahead as scheduled.
Arkansas's current supply of Midazolam expires on April 30th, and the drug's manufacturer wants no further part in executions.
Fresenius Kabi USA and West-Ward Pharmaceuticals Corp. were granted permission Thursday to file a friend of the court brief in a lawsuit filed by the inmates aimed at halting the executions.
These would be the first executions to be conducted in Arkansas in a dozen years and the most performed that quickly since the death penalty was restored in 1976. The inmates are challenging the compressed timetable of the executions as well as the use of midazolam, a sedative that's been used in flawed executions in other states.
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