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Suit Challenges Missouri's Lethal Injection

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That's the title of an AP report in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  LINKInmates, families, clergy and legislators claimed in a new lawsuit that Missouri's method of lethal injection violates state law. Meanwhile, a doctor who once performed executions in Missouri apparently has resurfaced in Arizona. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Cole County, said the Missouri Department of Corrections and director Larry Crawford did not comply with state requirements to provide public notice and invite comments on new execution procedures, or advise a legislative rules committee. The suit wants Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem to stop the state from executing anyone until it has followed state law on promulgating rules. The Corrections Department declined to comment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).