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Montana's Lethal Injection Challenge

By Steve Hall

Today's Missoulian reports, "Montana, death-row inmate's lawyers want stay of execution to continue."  It's written by Mike Dennison. Lawyers for the state and death-row inmate Ronald A. Smith argued Monday that the Montana Supreme Court should maintain an order blocking his Jan. 31 execution date, to allow his lawsuit challenging the execution method to proceed. District Judge John Larson of Missoula last month set the Jan. 31 execution date for Smith, acting two days after state District Judge Jeff Sherlock of Helena issued an order staying Smith's execution. Then Larson asked the Supreme Court to intervene, saying only the sentencing court has the power to stay an execution. Lawyers for Smith and the state, however, said Larson had been informed of the stay two days before he held a Nov...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 07, 2010 (boomark / email).