|
|
| Inmate protests execution method |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/25/2006 |
|
PIERRE, SD - While one death-row inmate voluntarily seeks execution by lethal injection, another argues that South Dakota officials may have adopted an illegal three-drug capital punishment regimen that violates constitutional rights. Donald Moeller, who raped and murdered 9-year-old Becky O'Connell of Sioux Falls in 1990, has lodged that complaint with U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol. Mark F. Marshall, Moeller's court-appointed lawyer, says the state Corrections Department appears to have embraced a policy that adds a third drug to the mix of two other drugs that are specified in state law as the method to kill inmates. Moeller's latest claim centers on a June 12 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that makes it easier for death-row inmates to contest lethal injections. Condemned inmates may now make special federal court claims that chemicals used in executions are so painful that they amount to cruel and unusual punishment that is unconstitutional...Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
MARKETPLACE search vendors | advanced search
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
|
Comments:
No comments have been posted for this article.
Login to let us know what you think