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Child killer challenges execution

Attorney: State method could cause painBY JOHN A. TORRES ? FLORIDA TODAY ? June 21, 2008Arguing that the state's revised execution protocol is not good enough and still may cause an inmate pain, attorneys for convicted child killer Mark Dean Schwab petitioned the court Friday to vacate his death sentence.Schwab is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. July 1 for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez in 1991.A governor-appointed task force last year recommended certain changes to the lethal injection execution method after a botched execution in 2006 caused the death of killer Angel Diaz to take twice as long asnormal.The adopted changes are said to be similar to the method used by Kentucky. That method was approved by the U...continue to full post

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