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Challenge Filed to Nebraska Lethal Injection Law

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"Motion challenges new lethal injection law," is Paul Hammel's report in the Omaha World-Herald.Five days after being signed into law, Nebraska?s new lethal injection law was challenged Tuesday. A lawyer for death-row inmate Raymond Mata Jr. filed an appeal in the Nebraska Supreme Court, arguing that the law signed by the governor on Thursday was an unconstitutional delegation of authority from the Legislature to the Nebraska Department of Corrections. Under Legislative Bill 36, the department will devise a protocol for administering a lethal trio of drugs. Mata?s attorney, Jerry Soucie of the Nebraska Commission on Public Advocacy, argues that the Legislature did not provide sufficient guidance to the department on which drugs to use to cause death or on the timing of their administration...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 03, 2009 (boomark / email).