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Lethal Injection Round-Up

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With developments from Arizona and Florida. The Arizona Republic carries an AP report, "Inmate: Arizona death method still subject to challenge."Arizona's method of lethal injection is open to challenge as inflicting cruel and unusual punishment because it varies in key ways from another state's method upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a filing Thursday for a death-row inmate. Court papers filed on behalf of convicted murder Jeffrey Landrigan argue that Arizona's method remains on constitutionally shaky ground despite the April 16 ruling that upheld Kentucky's method and ?substantially similar? ones of other states. The papers include an anesthesiologist's declaration that differences of Arizona's method including insertion of the intravenous line in the groin area instead of an arm or a leg and because a second IV line is only a dummy that sends the injected drugs to a bucket...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 13, 2008 (boomark / email).