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Florida's Scheduled Execution

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The Ocala Star-Banner reports, "Questions about drug cocktail hang over Schwab execution," scheduled for Tuesday.Florida is set to put convicted child killer Mark David Schwab to death Tuesday, resuming executions for the first time since a botched execution more than 18 months ago. In that time, the state has made changes to the lethal injection process such as redesigning the death chamber and adding a step to ensure an inmate is unconscious before lethal drugs are injected. But critics say the state failed to address problems with the drugs themselves and training of the people administering them. "If you keep doing what you've done in the past, why do you not expect the same result?" asked Peter Cannon, an attorney representing Schwab for the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel's Tampa office...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 30, 2008 (boomark / email).