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A LI challenge to watch in Ohio

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via NYT: Lawyers for that inmate, Lawrence Raymond Reynolds Jr., who is scheduled to die on Oct. 8, said training and procedures for the execution team were inadequate to prevent cruel and unusual punishment. They cited the problems associated with the unsuccessful execution of Romell Broom, who was convicted of the 1984 abduction, rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. ?If his death sentence is not enjoined or otherwise delayed, the same inadequately trained and unskilled individuals will attempt to execute Reynolds under the same flawed lethal injection protocol employed in the Sept. 15, 2009, attempted execution of Broom,? the lawyers wrote in a motion filed Monday with the state?s Supreme Court.

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).