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Lethal Injection Legislation Moving Again in Arkansas

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"Bill on lethal injections altered, sent to Senate," is Charlie Frago's Arkansas Democrat Gazette report, in today's edition.A state Senate panel, satisfied with an amendment that requires public disclosure of the chemicals and procedures in lethal injections, endorsed a bill Wednesday exempting other aspects the execution process from legislative oversight and public scrutiny. After the 6-2 vote, civil-liberties advocates said the news media organizations in the state had stayed neutral on the bill out of political calculation, a charge later denied by the head of a press organization. House Bill 1706 stalled last week in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Several members said they wanted more details to be available to the public about the chemicals used...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).