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Sodium Thiopental Drug Source the Big Question in Arizona

By Steve Hall

Federal District Judge Roslyn Silver issued a Temporary Restraining Order against Arizona yesterday over the issue of the source of the state's lethal injection drug.  The state appealed the order, and early this morning the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld Judge Silver's ruling, issuing this Order.  Both documents are in Adobe .pdf format. "US appeals court rejects Arizona request to lift stay of death row inmate's execution," is the latest AP post, via Google News. A federal appeals court has denied Arizona's request to lift a judge's order blocking the execution of an inmate convicted of stabbing and strangling a man in 1989. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled early Tuesday that the state had failed to provide enough information to show why the court should lift the stay imposed by a federal district judge on Monday...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 26, 2010 (boomark / email).