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«Medical ethicists challenge court ruling on lethal injection in Alabama case: Ruling in death penalty case would have a chilling effect on physicians» willingness to serve as experts in capital punishment trials.»

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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.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a Missouri murderer's bid to avoid execution by lethal injection because it might rupture blood - filled tumors on his body due to a rare ailment, and he has suggested being put to death by gas.

WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a Missouri murderer's bid to avoid execution by lethal injection because it might rupture blood - filled tumors on his body due to a rare ailment, and he has suggested being put to death by gas.

A warden in a maximum security prison asks the resident doctor to facilitate giving a lethal injection to someone on death row.

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.)

More than 3,700 men and women now reside on America's 39 — one federal and 38 state — death rows; 717 individuals have been executed by lethal injection, electrocution, poison gas, hanging and firing squad since Gary Gilmore's death in 1977, and the 85 individuals put to death last year ranked the United States third in the world, behind China and Saudi Arabia.

The bishops allow that in «very rare circumstances» a priest may deny extreme unction to someone who insists on scheduling his lethal injection or refuse such a person a Christian funeral.

It wanted to carry out the death sentences before its stockpile of one of three drugs used in lethal injection, called midazolam, reached its expiry date on 30 April.

Showing no emotion at the trial, he went to his death by lethal injection in 2001, three months before the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

He discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors» participation in lethal injections, examines the influence of money on modern medicine, and recounts the astoundingly contentious history of hand washing.

Lorin «Tom» LaCrosse, who remains on the job while appealing a one - day suspension, said in a signed statement that Murray has «slung (animals) against the wall» when they did not die promptly after being given lethal injections.

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.

The «high altitude,» or decompression, chamber was on the way out and lethal injection was on the way in.

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.

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.

Sadly, that plight ended today with one dose of lethal injection on a dog who did absolutely nothing wrong.

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.

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.

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.

Judge Craig Estlinbaum, on the Adjunct Law Prof Blog, brings us the news that the state of Louisiana decided to go on the offensive in response to a challenge to its lethal injection procedures.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the case of a Missouri inmate who contends a rare medical condition would make being put to death by lethal injection «gruesome and painful» beyond the pain inherent in an execution.

Meanwhile, the AP reports that in Florida, state Rep. Brad Drake introduced a bill this week that would end the use of lethal injections in Florida executions, and instead require those on death row to choose between electrocution or a firing squad.

The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of Bobby Glen Wilcher on Tuesday just minutes before the condemned inmate was scheduled to die by lethal injection.

Willingham was put to death in 2004, but writer David Grann details how the pseudo-science prosecutors relied on to show that the fire was not an accident, and a lackluster defense by court - appointed lawyers who couldn't disprove it, doomed Willingham to death by lethal injection.

Features news, commentary and analysis of the issue of lethal injection in the United States, although there is an emphasis on Florida.

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.

Orin Kerr points Volokh Conspiracy readers to an AP report on brand - new Justice Alito's decision to refuse to let Missouri execute a death - row inmate contesting lethal injection, siding with the appeals court and against Justices Roberts, Scalia and Thomas.

The extreme views of partisans are generally well - known in this arena, but I am eager to hear what others in the ivory tower make of all the lethal injection goings - on.

Perhaps because legislatures have not listened to my scholarly suggestions, I am now wondering when other scholarly voices will start expounding balanced wisdom on all the lethal injection developments.

As we enter 2007, lethal injection issues have resulted in moratoria on executions in the two states — California and Florida — with the largest death rows.

The cases include some interesting issues, such as the constitutionality of requiring voters to show a photo ID before they may vote; the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection where the procedure poses a risk of pain and suffering in violation of the Eighth Amendment ban on «cruel and unusual punishment»; and a Fourth Amendment case involving an unlawful search under state law that Volokh conspirator and Fourth Amendment guru Orin Kerr is interested in.

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.»

In the article, which is available here, I argue that Congress and state legislatures, and not individual federal district judges around the country, should be actively working on improving lethal injection protocols.

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.

As detailed in press reports here and here, a «federal judge in Missouri on Tuesday rejected that state's lethal injection procedure for the third time, saying it was inadequate to ensure that condemned inmates did not suffer unnecessary pain during executions.»

The U.S. Supreme Court had decided at around 10 am that morning to accept a case from Kentucky (Baze v Rees) in order to rule on the constitutionality of the method of lethal injection as a means of carrying out executions.

Judge Keller refused to allow the attorneys for Michael Richard, scheduled to be executed on the same day, to file pleadings on his behalf, based on a grant of certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court that same day on the question of the constitutionality of lethal injection.

The World Medical Association (Resolution on Euthanasia Adopted General Assembly 2002) condemns euthanasia whether by lethal injection or by medically assisted suicide, and urges all domestic medical associations to refrain from complicity in such practice, even if domestic law professes to legalise it.

They challenged the execution by lethal injection on the grounds that it was unconstitutional as a method by which a capital sentence should be carried out.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court added three cases to its docket on Monday, agreeing to hear disputes about lethal injections, class - action settlements and arbitration.