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Eyes Turn to Missouri

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Monica Davey writes, "Executions Debated as Missouri Plans One," for today's New York Times.Officials in this state are preparing to execute a prisoner for the first time since 2005, when criticisms about the state?s lethal injection method emerged and one doctor who carried out executions acknowledged being dyslexic and sometimes ?improvising? when it came to the amounts of chemicals he administered. That doctor will no longer take part, and a United States Supreme Court ruling last year upheld a lethal injection procedure similar to the one Missouri will use, but some lawmakers, including some prominent Republicans, say they have lingering questions about the state?s system of capital punishment. The focus of those questions has shifted some, no longer centering on the method of execution but turning toward which prisoners are condemned and which are not, and whether those choices make sense...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).