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Eighth Circuit Hears Arkansas Lethal Injection Challenge

By Steve Hall

The U.S Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit today is hearing a challenge to Arkansas' lethal injection procedure."Appeals court to hear Ark. lethal injection case," is Jon Gambrell's AP report via the Belleville News Democrat. Four Arkansas death-row inmates will try to convince a panel of federal judges that the procedures used leading up to a lethal injection might put them at risk of unconstitutional harm, even if the execution method is backed by the U.S. Supreme Court.Lawyers for convicted killers Don William Davis, Jack Harold Jones Jr., Terrick Nooner and Frank Williams Jr. will appear Thursday before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. They will argue that policies of the Arkansas Department of Correction could allow for prisoners to suffer pain before the three-drug cocktail sedates and kills them...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).