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Attorney General tells Florida Supreme Court executions need not be painless

Attorney General tells Florida Supreme Court executions need not be painless By Bill Cotterell ? Florida Capital Bureau Political Editor ? June 27, 2008 http://www.news-press.com:80/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080627/NEWS01/80627021/1002 function NewWindow(height,width,url) {window.open(url,"ShowProdWindow","menubars=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,height="+height+",width="+width); } TALLAHASSEE -- Attorney General Bill McCollum told the Florida Supreme Court today that executions don't have to be totally painless."Avoidance of the possibility of any pain is neither possible nor required under the Constitution," said the state's brief in an appeal by convicted child killer Mark Dean Schwab, who is set to die next Tuesday. "If unconscious, as Schwab assumes he will be, there can be no risk of pain, let alone a 'substantial risk'...continue to full post

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