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Arizona's Lethal Injection Drug - Additional Coverage

By Steve Hall

Legal analyst Andrew Cohen has posted, "Supreme Court Sides With Arizona in Lethal Injection Drug Dispute," at Politics Daily. The legal question in the case was simple and unusual and sparked a great deal of debate among death penalty specialists: Does a condemned prisoner have a right to know where the drugs that will kill him came from and are made of? The Supreme Court's conservative majority answered that question no, at least in the circumstances of this case. In its unsigned order, issued late Tuesday night, the court dissolved the stay of execution as too speculative. "There is no evidence in the record to suggest that the drug obtained from a foreign source is unsafe," the justices said. "There was no showing that the drug was unlawfully obtained, nor was there an offer of proof to that effect...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).