LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas attorney general's office is asking the state's top court to lift stays of execution for six death row inmates who challenged the constitutionality of the state's lethal injection law.
The attorney general's office filed paperwork last week asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to lift stays for Jack Jones, Marcel Williams, Jason McGehee, Don Davis, Bruce Ward and Stacey Johnson.
The state's high court struck down the state's lethal injection law last year.
The Legislature enacted a new law last month to replace it.
The new law spells out in greater detail the procedures the state must follow in carrying out executions.
It says the state must use a lethal dose of a barbiturate, but leaves it up to Department of Correction to determine which one.
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