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Tennessee bans lethal injection

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Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Thursday, 20 September 2007, 08:33 GMT 09:33 UK
Tennessee bans lethal injection

A judge in Tennessee has ruled the state's method of executing prisoners by lethal injection is illegal because it is a cruel and unusual punishment.
Federal judge Aleta Trauger said inmates were not properly anesthetised before the injection was administered.

This presented a "substantial risk of unnecessary pain" to inmates and violated their constitutional rights.

Tennessee is among 11 states in which executions have been postponed or blocked over concerns about injections.

Judge Trauger was presiding over the case of Edward Jerome Harbison, due to be executed next week for murdering a woman in 1983.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7004031.stm

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