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State Court Approves Washington State's Lethal Injection Procedure

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Saturday's Tacoma News Tribune carried the AP report, "Superior Court upholds state death penalty," by Rachel LaCorte.A judge has affirmed Washington state?s procedures for executing prisoners by lethal injection, turning aside complaints that condemned inmates could be partially conscious when fatal drugs flow into their veins. In a ruling released Friday, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Chris Wickham said that the inmates presented no evidence that the state ?intended to impose punishment that was ?cruel.?? He said the method was constitutional under both the state and U.S. constitutions.?The procedure to be used by defendants, although not fail-safe, appears to have been designed to administer the death penalty in a way that is humane for the inmate and the observers,? Wickham wrote...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).

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