Bi-Partisan Panel: States Should Use Single Drug for Executions to Reduce Errors

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A bipartisan panel of criminal justice experts concluded that states should administer capital punishment with a single drug approved by the U.S. government for executions, the Washington Post reports. The legal research team called the Constitution Project released the 165-page study, which also calls for lethal-injection protocols in each of the 35…

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Questions Raised About Lethal Injections After Botched Execution in Oklahoma on Tuesday

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The deadly cocktails administered during executions are about to come under fire after a botched lethal injection involving Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett on Tuesday. Newsweek reports that a doctor stopped administering the lethal injection about 13 minutes into the procedure after Locket lifted his head and began mumbling. About 40 minutes after…

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D.C. Sniper Muhammad Has a Date With Death

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Convicted D.C. area sniper John Allen Muhammad, who went on a killing spree in 2002, terrorizing the Washington regionĀ  and sending local and federal law enforcement on a wild manhunt, has a date with death. Prince William County Circuit Judge Mary Grace O’Brien in Northern Virginia on Wednesday set…

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