Injection killing upheld
NZPA Washington A Federal judge ruled yesterday that states may use drug injections to carry out the death penalty. Prisoners under 'death sentence in Oklahoma and Texas had challenged the use of injections on the basis that the Food and Drug Administration had not approved drugs for such use. United States District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson said that the law did not require the F.D.A. to make such a determination, and that the agency was within its legal rights in refusing’to do so. David Kendall, lawyer for the prisoners, said he would appeal against the decision. The prisoners said: in a lawsuit that available evidence indicated lethal injections would not be a swift, painless, and humane way for killing condemned prisoners.
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Press, 1 September 1982, Page 8
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