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Texas: Former death row inmate seeks $2 million in state compensation
"Former death row inmate Alfred Dewayne Brown filed a request Monday for almost $2 million dollars in state compensation saying he spent more than 12 years behind bars because he was wrongfully convicted.
State senator Rodney Ellis and lawyers for Brown said the 33-year-old is eligible for a lump sum of $973,589 plus an annuity in that amount to be paid annually for the rest of his life.
Brown was freed from prison last year, and his case has been dismissed but no official has said he is "actually innocent."..."
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South Carolina bill would conceal lethal injection drug suppliers
"South Carolina lawmakers are looking for a compromise in a bill that would render information about lethal injection drugs a secret, a change that may enable the state to resume executions.
The state uses a 3 drug protocol: pentobarbital, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride. The corrections agency does not have the first 2 drugs and has not been able to acquire them..."
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USA: Return of the gas chamber
"...States are having problems because it's increasingly difficult to get effective, reliable, government-approved drugs for executions. As a result, lethal injections have become messy testing grounds for experimental drug cocktails. And now states are scrambling to find other options - including gas chambers and even firing squads, recently reinstated (though not yet utilized) in Utah.
Ohio's recent decision to postpone executions until at least 2017 highlights the dilemma that states face. "There are basically 4 choices states can make at this point," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a non-profit clearinghouse on death penalty issues. "One is stop and figure it out. 2 is look for other drugs. 3 is to change the method of execution. 4 is to get rid of the death penalty. And there have been proposals in virtually all of the states to do one or more of those."
The pressure on the 31 death-penalty states is growing because drug suppliers are increasingly pulling out of the death business, making it more difficult to find alternatives to the primary drug used for lethal injections: sodium thiopental, a barbiturate no longer manufactured in the United States.
In the absence of locally sold barbiturates, some states have looked overseas to purchase the drug. But in 2011, the European Union imposed a ban on the use of European-manufactured drugs in American executions. This forced some state governments to turn to local compounding pharmacies - which create drugs from basic ingredients - and untested barbiturates for executions. But even though several state governments promised compounders their identities would stay secret, few of the pharmacies were willing to risk being identified and stigmatized..."
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"Former death row inmate Alfred Dewayne Brown filed a request Monday for almost $2 million dollars in state compensation saying he spent more than 12 years behind bars because he was wrongfully convicted.
State senator Rodney Ellis and lawyers for Brown said the 33-year-old is eligible for a lump sum of $973,589 plus an annuity in that amount to be paid annually for the rest of his life.
Brown was freed from prison last year, and his case has been dismissed but no official has said he is "actually innocent."..."
http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.co...n=Feed:+DeathPenaltyNews+(Death+Penalty+News)
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South Carolina bill would conceal lethal injection drug suppliers
"South Carolina lawmakers are looking for a compromise in a bill that would render information about lethal injection drugs a secret, a change that may enable the state to resume executions.
The state uses a 3 drug protocol: pentobarbital, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride. The corrections agency does not have the first 2 drugs and has not been able to acquire them..."
http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.co...n=Feed:+DeathPenaltyNews+(Death+Penalty+News)
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USA: Return of the gas chamber
"...States are having problems because it's increasingly difficult to get effective, reliable, government-approved drugs for executions. As a result, lethal injections have become messy testing grounds for experimental drug cocktails. And now states are scrambling to find other options - including gas chambers and even firing squads, recently reinstated (though not yet utilized) in Utah.
Ohio's recent decision to postpone executions until at least 2017 highlights the dilemma that states face. "There are basically 4 choices states can make at this point," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a non-profit clearinghouse on death penalty issues. "One is stop and figure it out. 2 is look for other drugs. 3 is to change the method of execution. 4 is to get rid of the death penalty. And there have been proposals in virtually all of the states to do one or more of those."
The pressure on the 31 death-penalty states is growing because drug suppliers are increasingly pulling out of the death business, making it more difficult to find alternatives to the primary drug used for lethal injections: sodium thiopental, a barbiturate no longer manufactured in the United States.
In the absence of locally sold barbiturates, some states have looked overseas to purchase the drug. But in 2011, the European Union imposed a ban on the use of European-manufactured drugs in American executions. This forced some state governments to turn to local compounding pharmacies - which create drugs from basic ingredients - and untested barbiturates for executions. But even though several state governments promised compounders their identities would stay secret, few of the pharmacies were willing to risk being identified and stigmatized..."
http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.co...n=Feed:+DeathPenaltyNews+(Death+Penalty+News)
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