LITTLE ROCK — The Department of Corrections in Arkansas is gearing up to put at least one man to death on Monday night despite a number of legal hurdles that stand in the way of the state's planned executions.

Bruce Ward and Don Davis's executions were scheduled to begin Monday at 7 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. respectively, but that plan has been put into question as the Arkansas Attorney General's office fights multiple legal challenges — including a judge staying Ward's execution after his lawyer said he was not mentally competent to face capital punishment. Ward is believed to suffer from schizophrenia.

Nevertheless, the state's Department of Corrections said they moved Davis to its Cummins Unit, where the state's death chamber is housed, over the past few days. Davis had filed his own legal challenges about his mental competencies — his lawyer said Davis has an IQ of 70 — but a federal judge rejected his stay request on Easter Sunday.

The pressure is on as one key drug for the state's lethal injection protocol — the controversial sedative midazolam, which has failed in past executions and caused inmates to suffer before dying — is set to expire at the end of the month. The state has no means of replacing the drug in the foreseeable future, essentially stalling executions for an unknown period of time.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson had originally scheduled eight men to die over 10 days, but District Judge Kristine Baker placed a temporary injunction on all of the executions. In a 101-page opinion, she wrote that the midazolam could be unconstitutional, as it might allow for cruel and unusual punishment.

thephan wrote:How hard will it be for people to admit that they were suckered? My experience in TrumpLand is that the red tide that rose up to carry him to Mar-a-lago are a stubborn lot without any compunction for admitting fault or foolishness. How much more loss will it take? How far down the rungs of the ladder will they need to be thrown? There is seemingly an unwillingness to recognize what is happening before their very eyes, either blaming whoever (democrat) or hanging on to a wait & see that seems completely unlikely.

JUburton wrote:https://twitter.com/politico/status/853999491279720457

lmao

drsmooth wrote:

JUburton wrote:https://twitter.com/politico/status/853999491279720457

lmao

no one should ever allow any real children (his own hellspawn cannot be confirmed to be living creatures) near this creep

drsmooth wrote:

JUburton wrote:https://twitter.com/politico/status/853999491279720457

lmao

no one should ever allow any real children (his own hellspawn cannot be confirmed to be living creatures) near this creep

thephan wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

JUburton wrote:https://twitter.com/politico/status/853999491279720457

lmao

no one should ever allow any real children (his own hellspawn cannot be confirmed to be living creatures) near this creep

I am not sure that he just did not have a moment and forget that a kid handed it to him. Ever the showman, and forever rather clueless.

JUburton wrote:

thephan wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

JUburton wrote:https://twitter.com/politico/status/853999491279720457

lmao

no one should ever allow any real children (his own hellspawn cannot be confirmed to be living creatures) near this creep

I am not sure that he just did not have a moment and forget that a kid handed it to him. Ever the showman, and forever rather clueless.

don't forget the part where he goes 'whose hat is this?' when he's trying to pass off the pen.

Woody wrote:**He's just building a case so that he can claim illness, senility, or both before resigning from a job he never wanted in the first place... which will occur, coincidentally, just before the Russian probe's really heavy shoes are about to drop

swishnicholson wrote:

Woody wrote:**He's just building a case so that he can claim illness, senility, or both before resigning from a job he never wanted in the first place... which will occur, coincidentally, just before the Russian probe's really heavy shoes are about to drop

"I can't believe you're still talking about the election. Which I won, by the way."

thephan wrote:Spicer was asked if Trump will release the 2016 Return, because it is not under audit, but Spicer said it is under audit. That is some terrible spin.

Spicer seems to think that there is some mast audit that covers all returns, and he sings that party line that there is some legal concern that one cannot release a tax return under audit. The cap stone was that the American people knew what they were getting when they elected him.

drsmooth wrote:Pence in his just-out-of-the-box "bomber jacket' is such a douche. Fonzie is our vice prez

thephan wrote:Report - Russian State TV Says Trump Is More Dangerous Than Kim Jong-Un

Pushing back against Donald or creating a perception of separation?

A survey conducted by the state-run pollster VTsIOM released Monday found that 39 percent of Russians hold a negative opinion of Trump, versus only 7 percent in March