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| AZ Execution Drug Still Center Of Controversy |
| By azcentral.com |
| Published: 10/25/2010 |
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Jeffrey Landrigan was sentenced to death 20 years ago today for the 1989 murder of Chester Dean Dyer in Phoenix. Now the clock ticks as he sits on death row in Florence, wondering if he will be executed at 10 a.m. Tuesday or if an eleventh-hour legal maneuver will cause his execution to be put off for a third time. On Sunday night, Gov. Jan Brewer announced that she would not grant a reprieve to Landrigan based on new evidence. And today, a federal judge will question whether the state legally obtained one of the drugs needed for the execution by lethal injection. A nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental has raised questions by Landrigan's defense attorneys on whether the state went outside of U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations to get its supply. Despite a federal judge's order late Saturday, the state is balking at revealing where it obtained the drug, saying the information is protected by a state law concealing the identities of those involved in executions. Read More. |
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