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Coverage of Third Circuit Oral Arguments - Delaware Lethal Injection Procedure

By Steve Hall

Delaware Online reports, "Delaware courts: State's execution protocols dissected," by Adam Taylor.  A three-judge panel heard arguments Wednesday in a class-action lawsuit that has held up executions in Delaware for more than three years.U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Judges D. Michael Fisher, Thomas M. Hardiman and Franklin S. Van Antwerpen spent about an hour questioning an attorney from both sides: One from the Federal Community Defender's Office in Philadelphia, which filed the suit on behalf of Delaware's 20 death-row inmates; and an attorney from the state.The judges did not make a ruling Wednesday, nor did they offer any indication when they would."We will take the matter under advisement," Fisher said at the end of the session...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).