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Serial killer sues state on execution method

Serial killer sues state on execution method Tuesday, April 08, 2008 STAN DIELNews staff writer Alabama's new execution procedure, which critics have blasted as a thinly veiled attempt to get around a federal moratorium on the death penalty, still amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, a Death Row inmate argues in a lawsuit against the state. Daniel Lee Siebert, a convicted serial killer who is dying of pancreatic cancer while he awaits execution, amended a suit filed earlier to claim that Alabama's new procedure for executing the condemned violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. "The revision to the protocol is substantial, though inadequate to meet constitutional standards," the suit says. In October, the Department of Corrections adopted changes to its execution protocol to require a corrections officer to assess the consciousness of the condemned before the administration of chemicals intended to cause paralysis and cardiac arrest...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on April 08, 2008 (boomark / email).