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"Tennessee lethal injection questions remain," is the report in the Nashville City Paper by Clint Brewer.The Tennessee Supreme Court granted a motion on Monday to set an early 2009 execution date for convicted murderer Steve Henley. Henley was convicted in 1986 of the murders of Fred and Edna Stafford in rural Jackson County. Court records show Henley first shot the couple in a dispute over money allegedly owed Henley?s family. He then poured gasoline on the Stafford?s home and burned it with the couple inside ? Edna Stafford was wounded, but alive when the blaze was set. Yet attorneys in the case said they will file a motion in Middle Tennessee U.S. District Court opposing the execution based on a ruling last year by District Court Judge Aleta Trauger saying Tennessee?s lethal injection protocol violates an inmate?s Eighth Amendment rights...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 22, 2008 (boomark / email).