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Article: Law: The American way of death Another Death Row prisoner, Juan Raul Garza, is due to die in the US next week. But it's the death penalty itself that should be on trial, his British legal team tells Robert Verkaik
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 12, 2001
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The ghoulish media circus surrounding the execution of Timothy
McVeigh yesterday morning is expected to be repeated in eight days
time when another US murderer is scheduled to die.
Juan Raul Garza, a convicted drug dealer and killer from Texas, is
also to be executed by lethal injection at the new federal death
chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana. He will be only the second person in
nearly 40 years to be put to death under rules governed by federal
law. McVeigh was the first.
Garza's lawyers, including a team from Michael Mansfield's
chambers in London, are to pull out all the stops to save his life.
He will not, as McVeigh did, waive his final rights to go to the
Supreme Court.
Hugh ...