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Inmates Seek More Details on Executioners

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That's the title of an article in Sunday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch. LINKLawyers for five death row inmates are pressing Missouri to provide more detail about members of its execution team after a Post-Dispatch investigation revealed that one was a convicted stalker. The lawyers are willing to accept anonymous depositions keeping the executioners' names out of court records, they said. In papers filed last week in federal court in Kansas City, the lawyers said the executioner's criminal record, detailed in a front-page story Jan. 13, raises questions about his "temperament and suitability" to help with executions. The newspaper reported that David L. Pinkley, a licensed practical nurse then on probation, worked on Missouri executions and was permitted to join a federal team that executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in Indiana in 2001...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 22, 2008 (boomark / email).

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