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Missouri Executions on Hold Because of Federal Review

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That's the title of the AP report via today's Joplin Globe.  LINKExecutions effectively are on hold again in Missouri.Incoming Chief Justice William Ray Price Jr. said Tuesday that it?s unlikely the state Supreme Court will schedule any additional executions while a federal stay is in place for the execution of Reginald Clemons. The 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals put a hold on Clemons? scheduled June 17 execution after his attorneys challenged Missouri?s lethal injection procedures. They are seeking further court proceedings to ensure Missouri is using competent personnel who will not put inmates in pain with insufficient amounts of anesthesia before lethal injections. Price said a federal decision in the Clemons case could apply to all Missouri inmates facing execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).