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'Senate aims to restart lethal injections," is Lynn Bonner's report in the Raleigh News & Observer. Lawmakers on Wednesday endorsed a measure to sidestep a legal fight that has stalled executions in North Carolina.The state Senate voted to lift a requirement that top elected officials approve execution procedures, thereby nullifying a remaining court challenge to the death penalty. North Carolina has not executed anyone since August 2006 because of lawsuits over death penalty procedures and doctors' participation in executions.State Sen. Phil Berger of Eden, the Senate Republican leader, said the provision gets the state over "one remaining hurdle." "This should have the effect of reinstituting the death penalty," he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 14, 2009 (boomark / email).