Death Penalty
Appeals Court Halts Another Lethal Injection
A federal appeals court has halted another lethal injection, this time in the case of a terminally ill prisoner.
Lawyers for the state of Alabama had argued that the prisoner, Daniel Siebert, could be executed because the state had changed its lethal injection procedure, the New York Times reports. The changes are intended to test whether an inmate is unconscious and thus unable to feel pain before being put to death.
But the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the changes were minor. The execution will be delayed until the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a case challenging the constitutionality of lethal injection.
