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Lethal injection steps get hearing

Posted: September 25, 2009 at 5:23 a.m.

A panel of judges on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals questioned Thursday whether the state Department of Correction's lethal injection protocol guarantees that a doctor will be called in if executioners have trouble establishing an intravenous line in a condemned inmate.

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