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More on the State of Lethal Injection in Texas

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Following last week's stay of execution by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the Houston Chronicle reported Saturday, "AG says injection question settled."The Texas Attorney General's office filed its response to appeals that led to this week's last-minute stay of execution of a convicted capital murderer, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court already upheld the lethal injection process. The attorney general also said 11th-hour legal filings to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, like the one that halted Tuesday's execution of Derrick Juan Sonnier, should be discouraged. A Texas Defender Service lawyer filed appeals hours before Sonnier was to be put to death, arguing that death by lethal injection violates Eight Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).