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Questions Surround British Drug Used in Georgia Execution

By Steve Hall

Today's New York Times reports, "Murderer Is Executed in Georgia After Losing Stay."  It's by Kim Severson and Robbie Brown. A convicted murderer in Georgia whose lawyers argued that the painkilling drugs used to help execute him might be ineffective lost an 11th-hour appeal to the Supreme Court on Tuesday night and was put to death shortly before midnight. Justice Clarence Thomas had briefly stayed the execution of the inmate, Emmanuel Hammond, 45. But the court then allowed it to go forward. Earlier in the day, a county court and the State Supreme Court both ruled that evidence supposedly showing that a Georgia prisoner who was executed in September had suffered pain because of an ineffective dose of the drug, sodium thiopental, was too speculative to warrant a stay...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 26, 2011 (boomark / email).