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Washington state following Ohio's lead to adopt a one-drug lethal injection protocol

By Douglas A. Berman

This AP story, headlined "WA changes execution method," suggests that Ohio's recent success with a change to a one-drug lethal injection protocol is having an impact in other state laboratories.  Here is how the piece starts: Washington state has changed its method of execution from a three-drug cocktail to a one-drug system, according to paperwork filed Tuesday with the state Supreme Court. The filing by state Attorney General Rob McKenna reveals that the state made the decision last Thursday.  It wants the high court to dismiss portions of the appeal of death-row inmate Darold Stenson, arguing that a challenge of the drug protocol's constitutionality is now moot. The state Department of Corrections is in the process of rewriting the execution policy that will make Washington the second state in the nation to use the one-drug method...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 03, 2010 (boomark / email).