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By Steve Hall

"Ark. lethal injection suit to be heard in October," is Jon Gambrell's AP report via Newsday.Whether Arkansas resumes executing death-row inmates could hinge on how justices on the state's highest court read five words. Those five words ? "is to be carried out" ? sit near the beginning of a new law aimed at rendering the lawsuit over lethal injection by death-row inmate Frank Williams Jr. moot. State lawyers say it shows the law applies to all 40 men now awaiting execution on death row. However, Williams' lawyers have told the state Supreme Court that the law can't be applied retroactively in his case. The high court has scheduled oral arguments for Oct. 8 in Williams' case, which has stalled executions in the state for a year...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).