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Execution of second Florida prisoner likely to be postponed: lawyer
0 Comments | AFP, January, 2006
MIAMI (AFP) — The execution of a second Florida convict scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday is likely to be postponed, after the Supreme Court stayed the execution of another man to review claims that the injections are inhumane, a defense lawyer said.
Arthur Dennis Rutherford, 56, was scheduled to be executed on January 31 for the 1985 murder of a woman he had beaten and drowned in a bathtub.
But his lawyer, Linda McDermott, told AFP that his execution could be temporarily postponed, after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Clarence Hill, 47, another convict who argued that the chemicals Florida uses in lethal injections cause pain and therefore constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
"I certainly don't think our client is...
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