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Article: Americans rethink lethal injections for condemned
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- October 19, 2007
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Washington, Oct. 19 -- Nevada has joined more than a dozen US states in putting off executions because of increasing doubts about lethal injections and the amount of pain suffered by condemned prisoners. In the Nevada case, the prisoner, William Patrick Castillo, was actually willing to go forward with the execution, but an appeal by the American Civil Liberties Union prompted the state's supreme court late Monday to postpone all executions for another 20 days, media reports said. Ruling on complaints by two prisoners in Kentucky recently, the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on methods of execution - the first such deliberations in more than 125 years. Meanwhile, the man who ...