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Louisiana's Lethal Injection Challenge

By Steve Hall

Today's Baton Rouge Advocate reports, "Attorneys argue death policy," by Joe Gyan Jr.Attorneys for many of Louisiana?s 84 death-row inmates argued Thursday it would be premature for a judge to validate the state?s current lethal injection procedure for future executions because the rules governing executions have changed numerous times over the last 20 years.Lawyers representing the the Department of Public Safety and Corrections countered there is no evidence the rules will be altered again, and they said a judicial finding that the current rules are appropriate would save time and money.Michael Rubenstein, who represents condemned killer Jimmy Ray Williams, told state District Judge Mike Caldwell there is no need for such a judicial declaration now because there are no scheduled execution dates in Louisiana...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).