Arkansas faces new court fight over sedative for executions

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed by death row inmates is renewing a court fight over a sedative Arkansas uses for lethal injections, two years after the state raced to put eight convicted killers to death before a batch of the drug expired.
The federal trial that begins Tuesday could impact Arkansas’ efforts to restart executions, which had been on hold due to a lack of lethal injection drugs. It’ll also be the latest in a series of legal battles over midazolam,