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Jeffrey Landigan Case Active on Several Fronts in Arizona

By Steve Hall

"Judge asks Arizona for execution-drug source," is the title of Michael Kiefer's report in today's Arizona Republic. A federal judge has asked the Arizona Department of Corrections to voluntarily disclose where a drug was obtained that is needed for Tuesday's scheduled execution of convicted killer Jeffrey Landrigan.Attorneys for Landrigan, who is sentenced to die by lethal injection, have asked U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver to stay Landrigan's execution until arguments can be heard on the source of sodium thiopental to be used in the execution.The drug is one of three used in Arizona's lethal injection process.The defense has questioned how corrections officials obtained the drug amid a nationwide shortage...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 22, 2010 (boomark / email).