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Status of Delaware Lethal Injection Litigation

By Steve Hall

"Delaware courts: Death row inmates seek review," by Sean O'Sullivan is at Delaware Online today.The federal lawsuit that delayed all Delaware executions for almost four years could be going to the U.S. Supreme Court.Attorneys representing Delaware's death-row inmates said Thursday they will be seeking a review from the nation's highest court in the coming weeks.The announcement comes after the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals this week denied a request to review and revisit its Feb. 1 ruling, which allowed executions in Delaware to resume, effectively ending the case at the appeals court level.With that ruling, the death-row plaintiffs now have 90 days to file a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court.Attorney General Beau Biden said Thursday that this latest appeal effort is not expected to stop any executions in the state from going forward...continue to full post

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