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Florida still risks botched executions

A Times Editorial Florida still risks botched executions http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article473702.ece Published Friday, April 25, 2008 7:17 PM Florida is about to rev up its death chamber again. The U.S. Supreme Court has given the go-ahead to states like Florida to continue using a three-drug cocktail for lethal injections, and the state's attorney general and governor have wasted no time in calling for the resumption of executions. But just because Florida's procedure has been deemed constitutional doesn't mean it is sufficiently humane. The potential for error and an excruciating death remains. Florida's executions have been on hold while the Supreme Court decided a Kentucky case challenging the use of a three-drug lethal cocktail used by at least 30 death penalty states...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on April 27, 2008 (boomark / email).