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NC Lethal Injection Litigation Continues
2008-05-14 16:44:00 News Update 05.14.08 North Carolina The Council of State fired its latest volley this week in the ongoing litigation over North Carolina’s lethal injection protocol. The arguments can be summarized as follows: 1) the inmates cannot appeal the COS’s decision to approve the lethal injection protocol because they are not “persons aggrieved” by the decision; (2) ...
North Carolina Reaction to Baze
2008-04-21 17:33:00 News Update 04.21.08 North Carolina The US Supreme Court’s decision last week in Baze v. Rees does not mean that executions will resume immediately here in North Carolina. There are two state-based cases that must be resolved - first, a suit by five inmates who allege that the Council of State acted improperly in approving a ...
Court Asked to Reverse Council of State
2007-12-04 22:26:00 News Update 12.04.07 North Carolina Attorneys for five inmates on North Carolina’s death row have asked the Wake County Superior Court to review the Council of State’s February decision to approve a new lethal injection protocol. The complaint raises several issues: that the agency’s final decision was issued after the statutory deadline to do so had ...
More on the Council of State, Active Cases
2007-10-03 17:21:00 News Update 10.03.07 North Carolina The folks at People of Faith Against the Death Penalty noted the following during the Council of State meeting yesterday: Apparently forgetting the First Amendment?s guarantee of freedom of speech and the right ?to petition the government for a redress of grievances,? NC Secretary of State Elaine Marshall commented that she had received ...
Council of State Approves Lethal Injection Protocol
2007-10-02 15:38:00 The Council of State voted this morning to reject the recommendations of an Administrative Law Judge and approve the Department of Correction’s proposed lethal injection protocol. Of the nine-member Council, only Commissioner James E. Long voted against the DOC. General info on the meeting here. More on the proceedings before the ALJ here. Older blogging here. WRAL reports ...
Council of State to Decide Lethal Injection Issue
2007-09-17 16:15:00 News Update 09.17.07 North Carolina Back in August, the Council of State was ordered to reconsider its decision to approve the new lethal injection protocol. Last week, the Council announced that it will take this under advisement - and render a final decision - at its October 2nd meeting. The Council is not allowing live testimony, ...
Council of State Ordered to Reconsider Lethal Injection
2007-08-13 20:27:00 News Update 8.13.07 North Carolina Death row inmate Eric Queen, age 28, died at Central Prison last week of an apparent suicide. Mental illness likely played a role in his death. It has been over a decade since there was a successful suicide on North Carolina’s death row. In a major development, Senior Administrative Law Judge ... |
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