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| AZ Execution Still Caught In Drug Debate |
| By dcourier.com |
| Published: 10/19/2010 |
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PHOENIX - Claims based on politics, untested evidence and an undisclosed source for a drug in short supply will be debated as Arizona officials wrangle with lawyers for a death row inmate scheduled to be put to death in the state's first execution since 2007. The state Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments on two defense requests to block Jeffrey Landrigan's scheduled Oct. 26 execution by lethal injection at a state prison in Florence. One stay motion contends Landrigan couldn't get a fair shake from Gov. Jan Brewer because she's running in the Nov. 2 election and wouldn't want to appear to be soft on crime in the wake of three other offenders' escapes from a privately operated state prison near Kingman. Another cites a defense expert's inadvertent failure to conduct some evidence for DNA. A third pending defense motion, one that carries threads into other states, asks the court to order Arizona authorities to disclose their source of sodium thiopental, a sedative used to knock out inmates before injecting them with two other drugs to cause death. Read More. |
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