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- Missouri Says It Can't Find Execution Doctor
  Posted by Billbar from Los Angeles Times
  Missouri officials are headed for a showdown with a federal judge after informing him that the state cannot comply with a key part of his order directing the state to change its lethal injection execution procedures. The clash in Missouri raises two thorny questions about capital punishment that are becoming increasingly significant — one concerning judicial oversight, the other the role of the medical community.
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- Supreme Court Denies Texas, Arizona In Unconnected Death Penalty Cases
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  Justices refused without comment to consider reinstating the death sentence of Gregory Russeau in the murder of an elderly auto mechanic during a robbery in Texas. They also refused to overturn an appeals court decision that gave Robert Moormann a chance to pursue an appeal for his conviction in the death of his adoptive mother in Arizona.
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- Judge orders execution overhaul for Missouri
  Posted by Billbar from St. Louis Today
  A federal judge halted all executions in Missouri on Monday after finding that the state's execution procedure - largely in the hands of a dyslexic doctor - could cause "unconstitutional pain and suffering." U.S. Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. gave the Missouri Department of Corrections until July 15 to come up with a new lethal injection procedure.
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- Alito Breaks Tie, Kan. Death Penalty Stays
  Posted by Billbar from Forbes
  The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 affirming Kansas's death penalty statute. Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas disputed the claim by critics that the law created "a general presumption in favor of the death penalty in the state of Kansas." Justice David H. Souter, writing for the liberals, said the law was "morally absurd."
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- Justices Open Door For Injection Case
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  The Supreme Court gave the green light for a Florida death row inmate to challenge that state's lethal-injection procedures through a federal civil rights lawsuit, in a unanimous ruling that underscored the pivotal role of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in the court's death-penalty jurisprudence. They will decide whether Florida's method of executing inmates -- which, like that of most other states, employs three chemicals in sequence -- could subject a convict to excruciating but undetected pain, in violation of their civil rights.
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- Death math
  Posted by Billbar from Slate
  The Supreme Court tinkers with the calculus of capital punishment. Today's re-argument of Kansas v. Marsh is nominally a fight about jurors in "equipoise," but in fact is a fight about how dispassionate and mechanistic a sentence of death can really ever be.
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- Human Rights Watch condemns US lethal injection technique
  Posted by Billbar from Monsters and Critics
  The methods of lethal injection used in most US states that practise capital punishment cause unnecessary suffered in prisoners being put to death, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
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Alito Breaks Tie, Kan. Death Penalty Stays
Souter said that "in the face of evidence of the hazards of capital prosecution," maintaining a system like the one in Kansas "is obtuse by any moral or social measure."
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Death penalty

Missouri Says It Can't Find Execution Doctor

Supreme Court Denies Texas, Arizona In Unconnected Death Penalty Cases

Judge orders execution overhaul for Missouri

Alito Breaks Tie, Kan. Death Penalty Stays

Justices Open Door For Injection Case

Death math

Human Rights Watch condemns US lethal injection technique

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Alito Breaks Tie, Kan. Death Penalty Stays

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