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| Georgia delays execution that was to be videotaped |
| By chron.com - SHANNON McCAFFREY Associated Press |
| Published: 07/21/2011 |
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JACKSON, Ga. — Georgia abruptly postponed the lethal injection of a death row inmate who would have been the subject of the nation's first videotaped execution in nearly two decades. Andrew DeYoung was scheduled to die Wednesday night, but state corrections officials delayed carrying out the sentence until Thursday as they tried to figure out the logistics of recording an event that is usually only witnessed by prison officials, journalists and family members. The video recording was requested by attorneys for another Georgia death row inmate who wanted evidence to show that Georgia's reconfigured three-drug lethal injection procedure does not adequately sedate the inmate. Read More. |
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