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Earlier this year, Devin Moore, now 20, was on trial for the 2003 triple homicide of three Alabama policemen. While in detention for stealing a car, Moore grabbed the pistol of one officer and used it to fatally shoot a total of three of them. The defense mounted a case based on a childhood full of mental and physical abuse, as well as an affinity for violent games. One game in particular, Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto III, was singled out, because gamers can steal cars and kill cops in it. Moore had said he was inspired by the PlayStation...

Nashville -- The Tennessee Supreme Court unanimously rejected claims Monday that the three-drug combination used to execute killers can cause extreme pain in violation on the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Lawyers for Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, who was sentenced to die by lethal injection for the 1986 beating death of a Nashville drug dealer, sought to change the state's death penalty method. Separate appeals to block his execution are pending in federal court. Like many states, Tennessee uses a three-drug mixture in lethal injections. First, an anesthetic puts the inmate to sleep. The second drug, Pavulon, paralyzes the muscle...

NASHVILLE - The Tennessee Supreme Court is weighing whether there is enough risk of unnecessary pain and suffering involved in the state's lethal injection process to change current steps and drugs used by an overwhelming majority of other states. Associate Deputy Attorney General Joe Whalen told the five justices on Wednesday that the state's death penalty protocol is sound, a point challenged by lawyers for condemned killer Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman. "It's a protocol designed to render a condemned inmate unconscious within seconds and induce death within five minutes," Whalen said. Abdur'Rahman's attorney, Bradley MacLean, said the process, which includes Pavulon, a...

As many as four of every 10 prisoners put to death in the United States might receive inadequate anesthesia, causing them to remain conscious and experience blistering pain during a lethal injection. Researchers in Florida and Virginia drew this conclusion after reviewing levels of anesthetic in the blood of 49 inmates after they were executed. "I approached this as a physician," said the study's lead author, Dr. Leonidas Koniaris, chairman of surgical oncology at the University of Miami. "We were asking: Is there a possibility of awareness during an execution? Is there a large degree of pain and suffering associated...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Connecticut Civil Liberties Union is entering the legal fray over next month's scheduled execution of serial killer Michael Ross, challenging lethal injection as cruel and unusual punishment. The CCLU lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court on behalf of Ross' father, Dan Ross, acting as "next friend" to his son. The lawsuit cites an anesthesiologist's critical report of Connecticut's death penalty procedures and his conclusions that the process could inflict severe pain and trauma on Ross. "Media witnesses or family witnesses are being misled [about the procedure ], because it looks like the person is...

As I returned from church and sat down to relax by reading the local liberal news rag, that mind-control mechanism for sheeple and liberals, I was slammed with a front-page article called “Humanity in death”. I sometimes make the effort to read through this bastion of liberal slant and omission of truth in order to gat a glimpse into what the “enemy within” is up to. It appears these leftists now want us to eliminate the practice of lethal injection as a form of capital punishment, because it is allegedly inhumane according to one death row inmate and his team...

Utah May End Executions by Firing Squad Reporters look at the chair where John Albert Taylor was later strapped into and executed in by a firing squad, during a media tour of the execution chamber in Utah State Prison at Point of the Mountain, Utah, Jan. 24, 1996. The Utah Senate approved a bill Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004, that would eliminate firing squad executions - used most recently here in 1996 - unless lethal injection executions are found unconstitutional. There has not been an execution by firing squad in the United States since Taylor's execution in 1996. Utah moved toward...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal court ruled on Friday that lethal injection does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment, clearing the way for the execution next week of a man convicted of hacking four people to death. Kevin Cooper, 46, is due to be executed on Tuesday for using a hatchet and buck knife to kill two parents, their 10-year-old daughter and her friend in 1983. He says he is innocent. If the execution goes through it will be California's first in just over two years and the 11th since 1976. "There also appear to be questions concerning the...

'Hang him': Judge: Noose or needle for killer Sampson By J.M. Lawrence Friday, January 30, 2004 A federal judge yesterday ordered killer Gary Lee Sampson to die by lethal injection ``or hanging'' in New Hampshire where families of three men he murdered can more easily watch his execution for ``despicable, inexplicable and inexcusable crimes.'' ``If anyone deserves the death penalty, you do,'' U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf told Sampson, 44, proclaiming a New England death sentence as appropriate ``retribution'' for Sampson's six-day killing spree in 2001. Rejecting the government's plan to execute Sampson in Terre Haute, Ind., the judge...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution Wednesday of a condemned inmate who was part of a lawsuit that challenged one of the drugs used to carry out the death sentence. Kevin Lee Zimmerman won his reprieve about 20 minutes before he could have been put to death for a fatal stabbing and robbery at a Beaumont motel in 1987. In a brief order, Justice Antonin Scalia stopped the punishment pending an additional order from him or the court. ``I'm disappointed,'' Zimmerman told a Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman, Michelle Lyons. ``I was ready to...

Man sentenced to death for killing boy in 1992 By Lisa Teachey, Houston Chronicle, Thursday, April 4, 2002 After deliberating less than 10 minutes Wednesday, a jury sentenced a man to death by lethal injection in the 1992 slaying of a 9-year-old boy whose case was unsolved for almost a decade. Perry Allen Austin, 42, pleaded guilty earlier this week to capital murder. He confessed to killing David Kazmouz to get back at Kazmouz's older teen-age brother. Austin, who already is serving 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting a child and an additional 20 years for stabbing an inmate,...