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Missouri’s Lethal Injection Protocol Unconstitutional; Executions Stayed

Loaded on May 15, 2007 published in Prison Legal News May, 2007, page 37
Filed under: Medical Misconduct, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty. Location: Missouri.
Missouri's Lethal Injection Protocol Unconstitutional; Executions Stayed

Finding the current method of Missouri's execution of prisoners by lethal injection subjected condemned prisoners to "an unacceptable risk of suffering unconstitutional pain and suffering," a Missouri federal district court stayed all executions in the state.

Before the Court was the complaint of ...

 

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