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Wyoming Governor 'Comfortable' With Lethal Injection

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That't the headline in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle.  LINKThe U.S. Supreme Court is entering the realms of science and medicine by taking a case challenging lethal injection as a method of capital punishment. So said Gov. Dave Freudenthal said during his weekly news conference on Wednesday. "It's an odd thing for the Supreme Court to be in," he said. "I mean they are going to be making almost scientific judgments." The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments earlier this month challenging the kind of lethal injection used in all but one of the three dozen states that have the death penalty. Death-row inmates in Kentucky say the drugs used in an execution and the way they are administered creates a risk that a prisoner will suffer severe pain in violation of the U...continue to full post

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