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Arkansas LI Procedue Constitutional

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The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports, "Judge rules executions by injection no violation."A federal judge on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of Arkansas' lethal injection procedures, removing a legal barrier to the execution of four inmates who had challenged the procedures. Frank Williams Jr., Terrick Nooner, Don Davis and Jack Harold Jones are among death-row inmates around the country who have filed lawsuits contending that the combination of drugs used in lethal injections poses a risk that the person being executed could suffer pain, a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. In April the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the procedures used in Kentucky. The court said the risk of a botched execution wasn't great enough to violate the Eighth Amendment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).