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Arkansas Revises Execution Protocols

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That the title of an AP report via the Baxter Bulletin.  LINKExecutioners administering lethal injections in Arkansas will check for fluttering eyelids and shake condemned inmates to assure they are unconscious before delivering the two final drugs to carry out the death penalty, a revised state protocol says. The state attorney general's office offered the revised lethal injection procedures as part of an effort to lift federal court stays of execution against inmates challenging the method. The new procedure, dated May 22, also adds mixing the three drugs used in Arkansas executions in accordance with the manufacturer's specifications and the "already existing practice" that executioners have at least two years of medical experience...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).