The Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the state's new methods for carrying out lethal injections, changes prompted by a botched execution in December, do not violate the United States Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The decision could clear the way for the scheduled execution on Nov. 15 of Mark D. Schwab, who was convicted in the 1991 killing of Junny Rios-Martinez, 11, of Cocoa, Fla. The court did not specifically rule on Mr. Schwab's request for a stay of execution. "At this time, there is nothing prohibiting Schwab's execution from taking place as scheduled," said Sandi Copes, spokeswoman for Attorney General Bill McCollum. But the case could still go before the United States Supreme Court, which staying the execution of a Mississippi inmate on Tuesday, signaling that it intends to block executions until it decides a lethal injection case from Kentucky next spring.
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Florida Ruling on Lethal Injection
- 11/2/2007
- New York Times
- Link: http://www.nytimes.com
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