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The Lethal Injection Fight in Arizona

By Steve Hall

Today's Arizona Republic carries the report, "Arizona Death Row inmates' lawyers fight import of lethal-injection drug."  It's by Michael Kiefer. Attorneys representing Death Row prisoners in Arizona and two other states have asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to reject a request from 13 state attorneys general for help acquiring a drug used in executions by lethal injection. And: Attorneys Bradford Berenson and Coleen Klasmeier, and Dale Baich, from the Federal Public Defender's Office in Phoenix, recently sued the FDA to stop the agency from allowing states to import thiopental for executions. The lawsuit alleges that it is illegal to import the drug because it is not subject to FDA quality and safety standards...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 24, 2011 (boomark / email).