A federal judge gave the verbal order to temporarily halt lethal injections in Mississippi. The judge's move has come to challenge the state's execution methods as cruel and extreme. 

In a report with NBC News, District Judge Henry Wingate gave the order to suspend executions on Tuesday at the request of two Death Row inmates. According to the report, Judge Wingate didn't provide a written explanation for his ruling but is expected to do so in the upcoming weeks.

The state filed a notice on Tuesday in an appeal to overturn Wingate's order. 

"We are extremely disappointed that the federal court has frustrated the State of Mississippi's lawful duty to enforce its criminal sentence of capital punishment," Attorney General Jim Hood said in a statement with CBS News.

"We feel strongly that the district court misapplied the law," he added.

CBS News has also reported that Judge Wingate had issued a temporary restraining order which said that Mississippi officials are prohibited from using pentobarbital or midazolam, drugs which are used to render the inmates unconscious. The report further explained that Mississippi law followed a three-drug process: the sedative which is followed by a drug that causes paralysis, and a drug that would cause the inmate's heart to stop. 

According to the report of CBS, Attorney Jim Craig, who is the attorney for two Death Row inmates, expects Judge Wingate to be issuing a preliminary injunction that will freeze all executions until the case has been completed. Craig also added that Wingate said that he would expedite the case. 

The state of Mississippi was hoping to execute Death Row inmate Richard Jordan, 68 on Thursday. Jordan had been convicted of murder in the course of the kidnapping case of Edwna Marta in 1976. To note, he is the oldest inmate in Mississippi's Death Row, having spent 38 years there.

NBC reports that another inmate Ricky Chase, 45 was sentenced to death in 1990 for the murder of an elderly man in Copiah County. Chase has lost several court rulings indicating that he is mentally incapacitated. 

The report with CBS said that the inmates said that the they would face excruciating pain and torture during an execution. According to the inmates,  it is a violation of the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

Mississippi had last executed Death Row inmate Gary Simmons, a former grocery butcher who dismembered his victims, in June 2012.