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"Delaware: High court hears execution protocol arguments," is the AP report via the Delmarva Daily Times.Delaware prison officials violated state law by adopting a new lethal injection protocol without allowing for public review or comment, a lawyer representing a condemned ax murderer told the state Supreme Court on Wednesday. But an attorney for the Department of Correction argued that a lower court judge was correct in ruling that DOC policies and procedures are confidential and not subject to disclosure without written authorization from the DOC commissioner. The dispute involves a lawsuit in which convicted killer Robert Jackson III argues that officials violated the state's Administrative Procedures Act in adopting a new execution protocol last year...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).