Post by MXB on Feb 27, 2007 7:07:12 GMT -5
Class action status given to Delaware death row inmates
WILMINGTON (AP) — A federal judge granted class action status on Friday to all state inmates facing the death penalty, including them in a suit charging lethal injection is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual.
The decision puts all executions on hold, but Delaware had not scheduled one since a May 2006 stay of execution for convicted ax murder Robert Jackson. That stay now applies to the other 15 inmates facing execution.
The May ruling effectively had blocked further executions because the defense for any condemned inmate would need only to join the suit to stop it from being carried out.
See continuing coverage in The Daily Times.
www.delmarva now.com/apps/ pbcs.dll/ article?AID= /20070224/ NEWS01/70224006/ 1002
WILMINGTON (AP) — A federal judge granted class action status on Friday to all state inmates facing the death penalty, including them in a suit charging lethal injection is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual.
The decision puts all executions on hold, but Delaware had not scheduled one since a May 2006 stay of execution for convicted ax murder Robert Jackson. That stay now applies to the other 15 inmates facing execution.
The May ruling effectively had blocked further executions because the defense for any condemned inmate would need only to join the suit to stop it from being carried out.
See continuing coverage in The Daily Times.
www.delmarva now.com/apps/ pbcs.dll/ article?AID= /20070224/ NEWS01/70224006/ 1002