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Don't Halt Execution, State Says

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That's the title of an article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette over a challenge to the state's lethal injection procedure.  LINKAttorney General Dustin McDaniel asked the Arkansas Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a judge?s order barring the state?s lethal injection protocol from being followed with condemned killer Frank Williams. Williams is scheduled to die Sept. 9. In filings Tuesday, the state argued that Circuit Judge Timothy Fox wrongly ruled in his Pulaski County court that the Department of Correction?s new protocol is subject to a state law setting procedures state agencies must follow in making rules. The state also asked the high court to expedite its handling of the case. The justices gather today for a regularly scheduled meeting...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 03, 2008 (boomark / email).