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The Raleigh News & Observer carries an AP report, "Hearing scheduled in N.C. execution protocol case."Lawyers for death row inmates and the state will argue again before a North Carolina judge over the approval of an execution protocol by the Council of State. A hearing is scheduled Thursday afternoon before Wake Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens. Attorneys for the inmates contend the council, which is made up of elected state officials, shouldn't have approved a protocol for lethal injection. An administrative law judge ruled it was flawed after the approval and the council voted to let its earlier ruling stand. Administrative Law Judge Fred Morrison Jr. had ruled the method for executing inmates didn't ensure they wouldn't feel pain...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 16, 2008 (boomark / email).