Supreme Court halts execution to review lethal injection
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of a
convict who was already strapped to a table with intravenous tubes in his arms
when a high court justice stayed his execution.
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of a convict who was already strapped to a table with intravenous tubes in his arms when a high court justice stayed his execution.
Lawyers for Clarence Hill, who was condemned to death for the 1982 murder of a policeman, made a last-gasp appeal saying that the chemicals used in lethal injections in Florida were inhumane and against the US Constitution.
Hill, 47, was about an hour from receiving a deadly injection of sodium pentothal, an anaesthetic, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride.
Witnesses had gathered for the execution at the Florida State Prison and Hill had already been attached to intravenous tubes to receive the cocktail, his lawyers said.
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Posted: Fri - January 27, 2006 at 06:41 AM