LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Several Arkansas death row inmates sued the state Tuesday to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas , saying the measure gives prison officials unconstitutionally broad authority to decide how they should die.

Ten inmates filed the lawsuit in state court challenging the law signed this year by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Supporters have promoted the law as a way to carry out executions for the first time in eight years. Arkansas has 23 people on death row.

Arkansas hasn’t executed an inmate since 2017, when the state put four men to death before a drug used in its lethal injection process expired. The state has been unable to purchase more lethal injection drugs since because of manufacturers’ opposition to their use in executions, the

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