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Two Items From Georgia

By Steve Hall

There is coverage of two issues in Georgia.  A federal district judge, yesterday afternoon, rejected an inmate's petition regarding the state's supply of sodium thiopental, over the issue of the drug's expiration date. Also yesterday, the ful U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, heard oral arguments concerning the state's standard for determination of mental retardation in capital cases. "Judge rejects Georgia inmate's execution drug concerns," is the AP report, via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit by a Georgia inmate who claimed the state's stockpile of a key lethal injection drug expired and that using outdated drugs may cause excruciating pain. U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 16, 2011 (boomark / email).