Court upholds Arkansas’ lethal injection protocol
Posted: February 8, 2010 at 11:32 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — A federal appeals court has upheld Arkansas’ lethal injection procedure, finding it is designed “to avoid the needless infliction of pain, not to cause it.”
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by three death-row inmates, including two who are scheduled to die over the next nine weeks.
Terrick Nooner, Don Williams and Jack Jones Jr. challenged the constitutionality of Arkansas’ execution procedures. The appeals court ruled Monday that Arkansas’ three-drug protocol is “substantially similar to — and perhaps even more thorough than” a Kentucky procedure upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jones is scheduled to die March 16 for the death of a Bald Knob bookkeeper, and has a clemency hearing set for Tuesday.
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