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"Official: Arkansas won't use 'cut-down' in executions," is the title of an AP report, via the Pine Bluff Commercial.Executioners in Arkansas will not cut through muscle to find an inmate's veins during a difficult lethal injection procedure, a state prison official said.                                                                                                     A federal court affidavit by Ray Hobbs, a chief deputy director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, said members of a team conducting executions at the state's Cummins Unit would avoid using a technique known as a "cut-down...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 01, 2008 (boomark / email).