Sentences with phrase «for lethal injection»

No one will ever know, but two days later, TDS lawyers for Carlton Turner, the next inmate scheduled for lethal injection, filed a motion for a stay on the same Baze issue with the CCA, which denied it by a vote of 5 - 4.

In fact, the county points to the veterinary costs for lethal injection as a reason to use CO gas chambers!

To offer an alternative drug regimen for a lethal injection, an inmate's lawyers would have to solicit input from medical professionals.

In doing so, FDA deferred to law enforcement in the use of substances for lethal injection, which is consistent with the agency's long - standing policy.

Ongoing legal battles surrounding the production of drugs for lethal injections have halted executions in several states.

I read of the crisis in the US penal system arising from the difficulty of obtaining supplies for lethal injections.

Not exact matches

Ruben Cardenas, 47, the Mexican national, died by lethal injection at the Texas death chamber in Huntsville at 10:26 p.m. local time, Jason Clark, deputy chief of staff for the state Department of Criminal Justice, said by phone.

Craig Baxley, who was responsible for plunging the lethal injection syringe into at least eight prisoners, has himself attempted suicide and is now on six types of medication for PTSD and depression.

What would be the penalty in Tennessee for any mother who made the choice to have an abortion... guess we would either be giving them a lethal injection or have prisons full of women who chose to have an abortion or attempt to have one.

The trends are bad news for physicians who believe it would be a grievous sin to administer lethal injections or assist suicides.

That's a problem for places like Texas, which only has enough drugs for two more lethal injections (both of which are on the table for next week.)

It is the standard for most of the US states that execute prisoners by lethal injection.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer also used our studies as part of his research for Baze v. Rees in 2008, which upheld an earlier ruling in Kentucky that the state's approach to administering lethal injections does not violate the «cruel and unusual punishments» ban promised in the Eighth Amendment.

Regardless of whether Landrigan's legal team was simply using the drug shortage as stalling tactic, their legal maneuvering brings to the fore a contentious dispute over the science (or some would say lack thereof) behind lethal injection executions in the U.S.. For more than two decades, it has been argued that the FDA should be required to certify the safety and effectiveness of drugs used to carry out executions (as it does for drugs used to euthanize animalFor more than two decades, it has been argued that the FDA should be required to certify the safety and effectiveness of drugs used to carry out executions (as it does for drugs used to euthanize animalfor drugs used to euthanize animals).

By contrast, medical ethicists remain divided about active euthanasia, in which a physician ends a patient's life intentionally and directly: for example, by means of a lethal injection.

Now Clyde is rigging up the lethal injection machine to insure that his wife and daughter's murderer doesn't enjoy what's guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment, paralyzing the other killer before cutting him up in a couple dozen pieces, and patiently waiting for the cops to come pick him up.

Unable to maintain the façade and desperately unhappy about the pair's move to flyover country care for Nick's sick mother, Amy uses the media and consumer culture to teach Nick a lesson — one that could culminate in a lethal injection.

Crawford openly called the gas chamber inhumane and called for replacing the practice with lethal injections.

[23] The forced choice between lethal injection or a six - month quarantine makes it unnecessarily hard to preserve the lives of exposed cats and dogs, both for AAC and for city residents.

Under the proposed legislation lethal injection using sodium pentobarbital or a derivative, a procedure known as EBI, would be the only allowed method of euthanasia for animals in North Carolina's public shelters.

For small mammals, such as mice, where an injection could be too distressing or difficult, some veterinarians use lethal doses of anesthetic gases like chloroform in an anesthetic chamber.

Now I train dogs not so much for the money but because a trained dog with an informed owner has less chance of ending up at the end of a lethal injection needle for being vicious.

Update Mar. 5, 2009: The North Carolina House Agriculture Committee heard testimony yesterday about Davie's Law which would end the use of gas chambers on shelter animals and ban heartstick and mandate safe lethal injection for euthanasia of dogs and cats.

Also, if shelters must have available lethal injections for animals under 16 weeks of age, why not use it for all animals?

Regardless, the Humane Society of the United States offered to pay for the switch including the training of shelter staff to perform lethal injection and the necessary equipment and drugs.

Unwanted dogs, if no one will adopt them, will eventually be killed by the shelter using a lethal injection or toxic gasses, to make room for dogs people will want to adopt.

For every animal that goes home, either to their family or to a loving new one, one dies by lethal injection.

As for cost, a study conducted by the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society in September 2000 concluded that to euthanize 10,000 animals per year, cost of gassing averages $ 13,230 (excluding the cost of intravenous injection as a back - up method) while lethal injection averages $ 12,700.

The National Animal Control Association (NACA) issued the following policy statement in September, 2010: «NACA considers lethal injection of sodium pentobarbital, administered by competent, trained personnel, to be the only method of choice utilized for humane euthanasia of animal shelter dogs and cats.»

In «Desires and Management Preferences of Stakeholders Regarding Feral Cats in the Hawaiian Islands,» authors Cheryl Lohr and Christopher Lepczyk [1] report, based on their analysis of survey results, that «live capture and lethal injection was the most preferred technique and trap - neuter - release was the least preferred technique for managing feral cats» in the Hawaiian islands.

In light of their finding that «live capture and lethal injection was the most preferred technique and trap - neuter - release was the least preferred technique for managing feral cats,» it's curious that Lohr and Lepczyk [1] failed to acknowledge survey results that revealed vastly different attitudes.

Consider: - Directors of the 1,000 - member Lake County Humane Society are willing to pay for additional costs involved in converting to lethal injections.

Both the AVMA and the National Animal Control Association state that lethal injection by sodium pentobarbital is the preferred method for euthanasia.

The city council relied on the 2009 North Carolina cost analysis  that established lethal injection is actually cheaper. A copy of the full study is attached below for downloading.

Wright's suggestion, for example, that complaint - based impoundment followed by lethal injection is an efficient use of scarce tax dollars is demonstrably false.

For the next several decades, community animal control services would be assumed by humane groups, with the emphasis on improving shelter conditions and developing more «humane» methods of euthanasia, such as electric shock, gas and decompression chambers, and finally, lethal injection.

The county will continue to use CO gas chambers for these animals, but Gaston County Commissioner Allan Fraley has said if he doesn't see an increase in the numbers of animals euthanized by lethal injection, he will ask the commission to prohibit use of the CO gas chamber altogether.

The AVMA's new direction is more in line with the National Animal Control Association (NACA) which in September 2010, issued the following policy statement: «NACA considers lethal injection of sodium pentobarbital, administered by competent, trained personnel, to be the only method of choice utilized for humane euthanasia of animal shelter dogs and cats.»

County officials also cited public safety and cost of upgrades that would soon be required as the primary reasons for the switch to lethal injection as a means of euthanasia for shelter animals.

Who knows what Judge Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals was thinking when she wouldn't keep the court house doors open for twenty more minutes to accept a filing by a death row inmate's (Michael Richard) attorneys, seeking a stay of execution based on an decision earlier that day by the Supreme Court to review a challenge to the constitutionality of lethal injection.

By casting the net wide enough to capture 83 prisoners who presumably were just minding their own business training for the upcoming Spring prison rodeo (I have been to the October version, and, think what you will about the concept, I must say Warden Cain puts on a hell of a show), the state seeks to have the court «formally declare, once and for all» that the lethal injection procedure is not subject to the state APA.

In this decision, the 2nd Circuit exonerated U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny for his handling of the case of death row prisoner Michael Ross, who decided to forego habeas petitions and was scheduled to die by lethal injection (full account of the story is here).

The report attributed the rise to a de facto moratorium on executions for four months in 2008 while the Supreme Court considered a case involving lethal injections.

'' A Question Doug Berman Has Asked Before from StandDown Texas Project Is it finally time for Congress to do something about lethal injection problems, at his Sentencing Law Policy blog.

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Justice John Paul Stevens, who turns 88 next Sunday, writes in a concurrence that the Court's discussion of lethal injection has led him to conclude that «The time for a dispassionate, impartial comparison of the enormous costs that death penalty litigation imposes on society with the benefits that it produces has surely arrived.»

When judges schedule a lethal injection for a terminally ill prisoner whose struggle against lymphatic cancer and extensive medical history has left him without any easily accessible veins, our law descends into a ghoulish inferno.

In one case, a state court halted an execution scheduled for Thursday night, while a state judge separately barred the use of a lethal injection drug, potentially blocking all of the planned executions.

The Supreme Court's Hill decision on procedures for challenging lethal injection protocols in federal court (basics here, commentary here and here and here) just marks the start of another chapter in the saga of constitutional challenges to execution methods.