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10th Circuit Panel OKs Oklahoma Execution Drug Switch

By Steve Hall

The 10th Circuit ruling in Pavatt v. Matthews & Duty is in Adobe .pdf format. Today's Oklahoman reports, "Appeals court rejects convicted killer?s challenge to Oklahoma execution method,"by Robert Boczkiewicz. An appeals court on Tuesday allowed Oklahoma to proceed with executions, including one Thursday, using a new lethal injection drug. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a claim by death row inmate Jeffrey David Matthews that the drug, pentobarbital, could result in cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the U.S. Constitution. The Denver-based court concluded 3-0 that the amount of pentobarbital prison authorities plan to inject as the first of three execution drugs would by itself ?likely be lethal in most, if not all, instances...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 15, 2010 (boomark / email).