MONTGOMERY, Ala. AP – Alabama has joined a growing list of death penalty states facing court challenges to lethal injection policies, and a trial tentatively scheduled for November will determine if Alabama’s temporary halt of one execution will turn into longer delays like those in Tennessee and Florida.
Two convicted killers contend in lawsuits that Alabama’s lethal injection procedures can subject inmates to unconstitutionally cruel pain because they are not completely unconscious when their lungs and hearts are stopped.
