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Arkansas to set execution after receiving lethal injection drug
By wreg.com
Published: 08/18/2017

LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas has a new supply of a controversial lethal injection drug months after the state put four men to death over an eight-day period, officials said Thursday, as the state prepared to set an execution date for an inmate.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s office said he planned to schedule an execution for Jack Greene after a request from Attorney General Leslie Rutledge. Greene was convicted in the 1991 killing of Sidney Jethro Burnett after Burnett and his wife accused Greene of arson. He has exhausted his appeals and there’s no stay of execution in place, Rutledge told the governor in her request.

Hutchinson spokesman J.R. Davis said he doesn’t have a timeline yet for scheduling Greene’s execution.

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