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Appeals court puts Arizona execution on hold over drugs details
Source: Reuters
Appeals court puts Arizona execution on hold over drugs details
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
PHOENIX Sat Jul 19, 2014 11:53pm EDT
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Saturday ordered the scheduled execution of an Arizona man condemned for killing of his ex-girlfriend and her father in 1989 be put on hold until the state provides more details about the lethal injection procedure he faces.
Joseph Wood, 55, had been slated to be put to death on Wednesday at the state prison complex in Florence, about 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Phoenix.
But a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that the death row inmate was entitled to more information about the drugs that will be used to end his life and the qualifications of the executioners.
The San Francisco-based court said Wood had raised serious questions about whether his constitutional rights were being violated, and it said the inmate could suffer "irreparable harm" if the information were not first disclosed.
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BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
PHOENIX Sat Jul 19, 2014 11:53pm EDT
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Saturday ordered the scheduled execution of an Arizona man condemned for killing of his ex-girlfriend and her father in 1989 be put on hold until the state provides more details about the lethal injection procedure he faces.
Joseph Wood, 55, had been slated to be put to death on Wednesday at the state prison complex in Florence, about 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Phoenix.
But a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that the death row inmate was entitled to more information about the drugs that will be used to end his life and the qualifications of the executioners.
The San Francisco-based court said Wood had raised serious questions about whether his constitutional rights were being violated, and it said the inmate could suffer "irreparable harm" if the information were not first disclosed.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/20/us-usa-arizona-execution-idUSKBN0FP02A20140720