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Lethal Injection Challenge in Nebraska Dismissed

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"Nebraska Supreme Court dismisses lethal-injection appeal," is the title of the article from the Saturday Lincoln Journal Star, written by JoAnne Young.The Nebraska Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to Nebraska?s new lethal injection law filed earlier this month by death row inmate Raymond Mata Jr.In filing a motion on Mata?s behalf, attorney Jerry Soucie, with the Nebraska Commission on Public Advocacy, said the lethal injection bill, passed by the Legislature in late May and going into effect Aug. 30, was flawed.He also filed a motion to replace Mata?s death sentence with a sentence of life imprisonment. That motion was overruled as moot.Soucie said he wasn?t surprised by the court?s ruling Friday. It will pave the way for issues to be raised in future appeals, he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 22, 2009 (boomark / email).