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"Bill on executions heads to Senate" by Charlie Frago and Michael Wickline is in today's Arkansas Democrat Gazette.The Arkansas House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday that will likely speed the resumption of at least one execution in the state if it becomes law. "We're not here today to argue about the death penalty," Sheridan Democrat Bobby Pierce said, but "to figure out the most humane way to carry it out." His House Bill 1706 later passed 79-11. The legislation codifies the three-drug protocol recently approved by the U.S. Supreme Court into state law and exempts the execution process from the state's Administrative Procedure Act and the Freedom of Information Act, shielding it from public review or participation...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).