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Missouri Lethal Injection Procedure Constitutional

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"Federal judge upholds Missouri execution procedure," is the report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Missouri's lethal-injection procedure is not cruel or unusual punishment, possibly ending a series of lawsuits that kept the state's death chamber closed for nearly three years. The ruling was issued by U.S. District Judge Fernando J. Gaitan Jr. in Kansas City. Missouri corrections officials said Tuesday they were preparing to end the life of John Middleton on July 30 as originally scheduled. The state Supreme Court had granted the convicted killer a reprieve last week, presumably to give the federal court to sort out challenges by five death-row inmates to Missouri's execution protocol.And:During a suit by Missouri inmate Michael Taylor, the surgeon who supervised the state's lethal-injection for several years testified that he was dyslexic...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 17, 2008 (boomark / email).