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Mississippi Lethal-Injection Lawsuit Not Ffiled in Time

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That's the title of an AP report via the Picayune Item of Mississippi.  LINK Three Mississippi death row inmates waited too long to file a lawsuit challenging the state?s lethal-injection method, a federal appeals panel said Monday in upholding a district judge?s decision to dismiss the action.The three judges from 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans did not address the substance of the inmates? arguments that Mississippi?s current procedure causes unnecessary pain. The lawsuit also claimed employees administering the drugs are not properly trained.U.S. District Judge Allen Pepper dismissed the lawsuit in July. Pepper said the inmates ? Alan Dale Walker, Paul Everett Woodward and Gerald James Holland ? should have filed the lawsuit years earlier...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).