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An Update From Montana

By Steve Hall

Jennifer McKee files, "Execution chamber won't move, state Corrections Department now says," for today's Missoulian.Montana's execution chamber, an old renovated, single-wide trailer house, is not going anywhere, despite a recent judge's order indicating the beige, metal building was to be disassembled and removed by the end of the month. The chamber and the executions that go on there are the subject of a 2008 lawsuit brought by Ronald Smith, a man facing the death penalty in Montana who argues lethal injection violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.That lawsuit was put on hold earlier this month after state lawyers told Helena District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock the state intended to remove the trailer by Feb...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 13, 2010 (boomark / email).