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KXMC-TV of Minot, South Dakota carries an AP dispatch, "House approves death penalty changes."Changes in state laws dealing with death-row inmates have been approved by the South Dakota House.    SB53, which awaits a final vote in the state Senate, outlines new procedures judges must use to decide if someone is mentally incompetent and an execution should be stopped.    The bill also clarifies steps to be followed if a female death-row inmate is pregnant; the execution would be suspended until after the child is born.    SB53 additionally would make it clear that people who take part in a state execution are immune from civil lawsuits and criminal prosecution.The Sioux City Journal has more details in another version of the AP report...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).