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Virginia Lethal Injection Challenge

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Robert Barnes reports, "State Asks Supreme Court to Allow Execution," in the Washington Post. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider next month whether to allow Virginia to set an execution date for a death row inmate who contends that the commonwealth's lethal injection procedures do not meet the standards that the court recently found constitutional. Virginia Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell (R) has asked the court to vacate the stay of execution it granted Christopher Scott Emmett last fall, after the court agreed to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of Kentucky's lethal injection procedure. The court ruled 7 to 2 in favor of Kentucky, and Virginia contends that because its procedures are "virtually identical" to those the court found constitutional, Emmett's stay should be vacated and the state should be allowed to set an execution date...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).

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