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4 death row inmates file suit to stop lethal injections in Miss.

4 death row inmates file suit to stop lethal injections in Miss. Holbrook Mohr ? The Associated Press ? July 15, 2008 http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080715/NEWS/807150342/1001/news function NewWindow(height,width,url) {window.open(url,"ShowProdWindow","menubars=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,height="+height+",width="+width); } death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop, scheduled to die July 23, is back in the hands of a federal judge.Bishop is one of four condemned prisoners who filed a 2007 lawsuit to stop executions in Mississippi. They say the state's method of lethal injection is unconstitutional because it might cause pain. In a motion filed Monday and labeled "urgent and necessitous," the four inmates' attorneys accused state officials of withholding information about the way executions are carried out...continue to full post

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