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Lethal Injection Roundup

By Steve Hall

"Court won't rehear challenge to lethal injection procedures," is the title of John Lyon's report today for the Arkansas News Bureau.The state Supreme Court says it won?t reconsider its ruling ordering a lower court to dismiss a lawsuit that challenged the state?s lethal injection procedures. The state?s highest court today denied a petition by death-row inmate Frank Williams Jr. for a rehearing in his case.Williams, sentenced to die for the 1992 slaying of Lafayette County farmer Clyde Spence, alleged in a lawsuit that the state failed to comply with the Arkansas Administrative Procedures Act when it adopted rules regarding lethal injection without subjecting the rules to public review and accepting public comments.The Legislature earlier this year approved Act 1296 of 2009, which wrote the state?s lethal injection procedures into law and declared the procedures exempt from the Administrative Procedures Act...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 10, 2009 (boomark / email).