FILE - In this April 17, 2018, file image from video provided by KTHV-TV, a death penalty protester outside the Arkansas governor's mansion in Little Rock prepares to tie rope around Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen who is laying on a cot in protest of executions. Arkansas' attorney general is asking the state Supreme Court to reassign cases involving her office from a judge who's been prohibited from handling execution cases, accusing him of regularly being biased against her staff. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, requested that the court reassign the civil cases from Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen, who was prohibited from handling execution cases in 2017 after he participated in an anti-death penalty demonstration.(KTHV/TEGNA Inc. via AP, File)
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