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| TN Inmate Challenges Lethal Injection |
| By The Tennessean |
| Published: 02/16/2006 |
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Tennessee death-row inmate Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman filed an appeal yesterday to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the lethal injection procedures the state uses. The petition says the execution protocol, which includes the use of a drug called Pavulon, is unconstitutional because of the risk that it will result in inhumane pain and suffering. Pavulon paralyzes inmates to the point that they cannot express the pain they feel, said Bill Redick, one of Abdur'Rahman's attorneys and director of the Tennessee Justice Project, which advocates changing how the death penalty is administered. Abdur-Rahman's appeal of his death sentence is pending in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. No execution date is set. He began his challenge of the lethal injection protocol in 2002 in Davidson County Chancery Court, which approved the protocol. That decision was upheld late last year by the Tennessee Supreme Court. Scores of cases challenging lethal injection protocols have been filed across the country, mostly by inmates who have execution dates coming, Redick said. Abdur'Rahman's case is different because it's not an eleventh-hour appeal and has been argued in lower level courts, he said. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide before the end of its term in June whether to take up the appeal, Redick said. |
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