51. Currently, inmates are hanged unless they choose lethal injection. 52. Current law says the condemned may choose lethal injection but must be hanged if, like Rupe, he or she refuses to choose a method. 53. Death Penalty inflicted by lethal injection. 54. Deliberate starving or lethal injections by medical staff were methods of choice. 55. Despite their pleas, Tucker is put to death by lethal injection. 56. Defense lawyers say the lethal injection should at least be delayed so that they can have more time to gather and study federal police reports. 57. Donnella said she also will question whether Mincey can be executed by lethal injection since he was sentenced to die when electrocution was the method on the books. 58. Dr. Ray Baran, the track veterinarian who administered the lethal injection, said Hello suffered a compound fracture of the left-front cannon bone. 59. During the months of May and June, state prisons averaged two lethal injections a week. |
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