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| Federal judge to hear arguments regarding death penalty protocol |
| By montgomeryadvertiser.com- Kelsey Davis |
| Published: 01/12/2016 |
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U.S. District Judge Keith Watkins on Tuesday will hear what may be the final arguments in a lawsuit that challenges Alabama’s death penalty protocol. The litigation began in 2011 when attorney Suhana Han filed suit against Jefferson Dunn, Commissioner of Alabama Department of Corrections, and Walter Myers, Warden of Holman Correctional Facility, and others on behalf of Thomas Arthur, a death row inmate. Arthur was convicted in 1982 in a murder-for-hire scheme. Though the suit has been amended three times throughout the years, in essence it puts forth three primary complaints: that midazolam, the first drug used in Alabama’s three drug lethal injection protocol, does not properly anesthetize before the second and third drugs are administered, which could violate his eighth amendment rights by causing cruel and unusual pain. Read More. |
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