Hobbs v. McGehee

| Appellants Ray Hobbs, in his official capacity as Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, and the Arkansas Department of Correction (collectively the “ADC”) appeal the decision by the Pulaski County Circuit Court finding that Act 139 of 2013 unconstitutionally violates the separation-of-powers doctrine found in ar-tide IV of the Arkansas Constitution because it permits the ADC to select any chemical within a class of chemicals known as barbiturates to effectuate a sentence of death by lethal injection. Because this case involves substantial questions of law concerning the…