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Lethal Injection Review in Fourth Circuit

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The Washington Post reports, "Lethal Injection Methods Weighed," by Jerry Markon.A federal appeals court took up an issue Wednesday with broad implications for how executions will be carried out nationwide: whether Virginia's method of lethal injection induces an agonizing death. The debate before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit came in the case of Virginia death row inmate Christopher S. Emmett. His lawyers are challenging the state's lethal injection procedures, saying that prisoners are not fully anesthetized before being administered drugs that can cause excruciating pain. The Virginia attorney general's office said the state's executions are humane and constitutional. Lawyers said it was the first time an appeals court has debated lethal injection since the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 15, 2008 (boomark / email).