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Arizona Lethal Injection Procedure Ruled Constitutional

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"Execution method of lethal injection approved," is Michael Keifer's report in today's Arizona Republic.A federal judge Wednesday removed a major obstacle to executions in Arizona, ruling that the state's lethal-injection procedure is similar to one approved by the U.S. Supreme Court. Executions have been on hold in Arizona since November 2007, when the Arizona Supreme Court postponed the death of convicted murderer Jeffrey Landrigan pending the U.S. Supreme Court's analysis of how inmates were put to death in Kentucky. The high court's ruling approved the Kentucky protocol, but left the door open for other death-row defendants to question how it was done in their states. Federal public defenders in Phoenix quickly filed such an appeal in Maricopa County Superior Court on Landrigan's behalf...continue to full post

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