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| Legal advice on executions passed over |
| By St. Petersburg Times |
| Published: 09/14/2007 |
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FLORIDA - The Department of Corrections rejected advice by its own legal staff to use a machine that would determine if an inmate was fully unconscious during his execution. On Aug. 15, 2006, assistant general counsel Sara Dyehouse wrote her boss about legal challenges that were delaying executions around the country. Death row inmates were alleging that the administration of the fatal chemicals "may cause 'unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain' if the sodium pentothal anesthesia has failed to produce a sufficient level of unconsciousness." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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