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Nevada Execution Challenge Dropped

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The Las Vegas Sun carries an AP report, "Execution challenge dropped."A state Supreme Court case challenging Nevada's use of lethal injection to execute inmates has been voluntarily dropped by the American Civil Liberties Union and the state attorney general's office. The case involves William Castillo, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the 1995 slaying of a retired Las Vegas school teacher. However, Castillo has an appeal pending in U.S. District Court, and his execution can't be scheduled until the federal appeal is resolved. Lee Rowland of the ACLU of Nevada said Wednesday that the ACLU decided to drop its state Supreme Court case and the attorney general's office went along with the move. The state case "no longer serves to benefit" Castillo, Rowland said, adding that the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).