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Delaware to Change Lethal Injection Proposal

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The Wilmington News Journal reports, "Delaware to change execution procedure."After months of insisting that Delaware's method of lethal injection was virtually identical -- and perhaps better -- than the one approved by the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys for the state have filed papers saying that is not the case. In a court filing this month, attorneys signaled they will admit there are differences and that Delaware will be changing how it carries out executions to more closely reflect the standard approved by the high court. Neither the Delaware Attorney General's Office nor the state Department of Correction would comment about the reasons for the state's shift in position. However, all executions in Delaware have been on hold since May 2006 when attorneys from the Philadelphia Federal Community Defender's Office filed suit in federal court charging that the state's execution policies and procedures were so flawed that the process amounted to -- or could allow -- unconstitutional torture of the condemned...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 24, 2008 (boomark / email).