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| FL inmate hopes for stay |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 09/19/2006 |
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PENSACOLA, FL - A condemned inmate asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to halt his execution, three months after the justices said he could lodge a civil rights challenge to the chemicals Florida uses in its lethal injection. Clarence Hill, 48, is scheduled to die Wednesday for the 1982 murder of a Pensacola police officer in a savings and loan robbery. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned down Hill's appeal Friday night, and accused him of delaying tactics. Hill's attorney D. Todd Doss said he had filed a petition and an application for a stay with the Supreme Court, which in January stopped his execution minutes before he was to die. Hill claims the chemicals used in lethal injections are too painful and constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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