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Additional Lethal Injection News

By Steve Hall

"Ga. court rejects condemned man's lawsuit," is the AP report via WRCB-TV. A judge rejected an attempt to delay a Georgia death row inmate's execution after his attorneys raised questions about the supply of a lethal injection drug. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Michael Johnson rejected a claim on Monday by attorneys for Emmanuel Hammond that Georgia's supply of sodium thiopental could be substandard. Hammond's attorney, Brian Mendelsohn, said he wanted more time to look at the expiration dates of the drug, which is in short supply. Defense attorneys say Georgia officials released documents that show the drugs could come from a London-based firm and need more investigation. From Nebraska, JoAnne Young writes, "Nebraska gets drug it needs to do lethal injections," for the Lincoln Journal Star...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).