The Arkansas Supreme Court has said a judge who was barred from hearing execution-related cases after he participated in an anti-death penalty protest can't preside over a capital murder case. Justices granted a request by the state to prohibit Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen from presiding over a the trial of a man accused of killing two people in Sherwood in January 2020. Judge Griffen was prohibited from handling execution-related cases in April 2017 after he was photographed participating in an anti-death penalty demonstration outside the governor's mansion the same day he blocked Arkansas from using a lethal injection drug. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen taking part of an anti-death penalty demonstration outside the Governor's Mansion in Little Rock.(AP)