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The Delmarva Daily Times reports today, "Deadline set in fight over executions."A federal judge in Wilmington has set a deadline in a lawsuit brought by death row inmates challenging the constitutionality of Delaware's lethal injections.Both sides were told to submit final briefs by the end of the month, indicating Judge Sue Robinson may be nearing a decision that could allow executions to resume.The lawsuit was brought in May 2006. Since then, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a similar case that lethal injection is a constitutional execution method. And the state signaled in July it would adopt procedural standards approved by the high court.Attorneys representing the inmates say the state has a track record of not following its own procedures...continue to full post

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