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Mediation Ordered in Lethal Injection Suit

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That's the headline of a Delaware Online report by Sean O'Sullivan.  LINKA judge has ordered parties involved in the federal civil rights lawsuit over Delaware's use of lethal injection to mediation. District Judge Sue L. Robinson directed attorneys for Delaware and public defenders representing the state's death row inmates to submit proposals and resolve any outstanding issues with Magistrate Judge Mary Pat Thynge. While dates for the submissions were set, no date for a final resolution was indicated in Robinson's order. Attorneys on both sides have declined comment. Robinson noted in the order that a hearing set for earlier this month, at which both sides were supposed to debate the policies and procedures used by Delaware in carrying out lethal injection executions, was called off because the state has agreed to adopt protocols that were approved earlier this year by the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 17, 2008 (boomark / email).