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| Court rules against death row inmate Roy Lee Ward |
| By duboiscountyherald.com |
| Published: 02/15/2018 |
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ROCKPORT — The Indiana Supreme Court issued an opinion Tuesday upholding a lower court’s dismissal of a complaint filed by death row inmate Roy Lee Ward. Ward had challenged procedures followed by the Indiana Department of Correction when they announced a change to the lethal injection protocol. Ward, who was from the Perry County town of Leopold, was 29 when he raped and murdered 15-year-old Stacy Payne at her Dale-area home. In May 2014, the Department of Correction announced it would alter the three-drug combination used for executions, replacing sodium thiopental with Brevital — a barbituate anesthetic in the same class. On Dec. 22, 2015, Roy Lee Ward filed a complaint in the LaPorte Circuit Court against the Department of Correction alleging that the change to the lethal injection protocol violated his rights under the Indiana Administrative Rules and Procedures Act, among other rights. The trial court in LaPorte County granted the state’s request to dismiss the complaint, a decision that was later reversed by the Indiana Court of Appeals before winding up in the Indiana Supreme Court. Read More. |
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