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Missouri Lethal Injection Challenge Re-examined

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"Missouri Supreme Court rehears case on execution method," is the AP report via the Jefferson City News Tribune.  It's written by David Lieb.The Missouri Supreme Court is taking a second look at the way the state adopted its procedures for executing condemned inmates.In a somewhat unusual move, the state's high court heard a second round of arguments Thursday on claims that Missouri's execution protocol is invalid because it was not adopted as an official rule by the Department of Corrections.The department contends the execution protocol is an internal management policy exempt from formal rule-making.The effect of the procedural haggling is that executions remain on hold in Missouri. Although once among the annual leaders in lethal injections, Missouri has not put anyone to death since October 2005...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).