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| State sued for cruel, unusual punishment |
| By The Birmingham News |
| Published: 04/08/2008 |
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ALABAMA - Alabama's new execution procedure, which critics have blasted as a thinly veiled attempt to get around a federal moratorium on the death penalty, still amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, a Death Row inmate argues in a lawsuit against the state. Daniel Lee Siebert, a convicted serial killer who is dying of pancreatic cancer while he awaits execution, amended a suit filed earlier to claim that Alabama's new procedure for executing the condemned violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. "The revision to the protocol is substantial, though inadequate to meet constitutional standards," the suit says. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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