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| AZ Lack Of Info Makes Judge Delay Execution |
| By cnn.com |
| Published: 10/26/2010 |
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(CNN) -- A federal judge halted the execution of convicted strangler Jeffrey Landrigan on Monday, hours before he was set to die by lethal injection. U.S. District Court Judge Roslyn Silver issued the stay four days after Landrigan's lawyers filed a civil rights complaint alleging the planned execution violated his constitutional rights to be free from cruel and unusual punishment and to due process. Landrigan had been set to be put to death on Tuesday at noon MT (2 p.m ET). In 1989, Landrigan escaped from an Oklahoma prison where he was serving time for second-degree murder. He was convicted of killing Chester Dean Dyer in Arizona a year later, during an armed burglary, and a trial judge sentenced him to death. Read More. |
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