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Lethal Injection Hearing in Tennessee

By Steve Hall

"Lethal injection on trial in Nashville today," is the brief AP item via the Tennessean. A Nashville judge will hear arguments from attorneys for a death row inmate challenging the state's lethal injection procedure. Stephen Michael West was scheduled for execution on Nov. 9 but was given a temporary stay to address his claims in Davidson County Chancery Court in front of Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman on Thursday. His execution was reset for Nov. 30. West's attorneys claim the first drug in Tennessee's three-drug lethal injection protocol does not adequately anesthetize prisoners and causes them to experience unconstitutionally severe pain. Earlier coverage from Tennessee begins with this post.  Related items are in the lethal injection indexcontinue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 18, 2010 (boomark / email).