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Refusal of Non-Lethal Injection Kills Arizona Prisoner
Loaded on June 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1998, page 17
Arizona prisoner Teshome Abate, 39, died Jan. 3, 1998, after a four month hunger strike. In 1989 Abate brought suit against the department of corrections seeking to acquire his Ethiopian Orthodox Christian diet. Ethiopian Orthodox leaders had informed officials their faith requires adherence to Old Testament dietary laws. There was ...
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