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More on Montana Lethal Injection Litigation

By Steve Hall

"Canadian on death row sues for end of execution chamber," by Randy Boswell of Canwest News Service is via the National Post.  It appeared in the Monday edition.  A U.S. lawsuit by Alberta-born double-murderer Ronald Smith -- the only Canadian citizen facing the death penalty in the United States -- has put Montana's controversial execution chamber itself on death row. Facing a legal challenge from Smith over the alleged "cruelty" of Montana's lethal-injection mode of capital punishment, state officials have advised a judge hearing the case that the makeshift facility used for decades to administer a fatal dose of drugs to condemned prisoners -- a converted trailer on the grounds of Montana State Prison -- will be shut down this year after a new "multi-purpose storage room" is added to the jail's maximum security building for executions and other uses...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).