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Arizona Lethal Injection Challenge

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The Sunday Arizona Republic reported, "Arizona execution protocol challenged."Federal public defenders have since filed a petition for post-conviction relief in Maricopa County Superior Court on Landrigan's behalf. It's a petition that provides an unprecedented, detailed look at how the condemned are put to death. The motion alleges that Arizona's use of a nine-person team to administer three drugs is too complex. It also claims that use of an IV catheter inserted into a femoral artery in the thigh instead of a more readily available vein in an arm or a neck, unnecessarily increases the risk of error and pain. The motion recommends not that Landrigan's death sentence be commuted, but rather that a single-drug protocol be established, using only anesthesia or barbiturate to cause death...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).