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    For those who never heard of Brevital (methohexital), here's part of the wikipedia entry on it:

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    On August 26, 2016, the Seventh Circuit DENIED Ward's appeal.

    http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/...016-08-26.html

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    Death row inmate’s habeas petition denied by 7th Circuit

    By Jennifer Nelson
    The Indiana Lawyer

    The man who brutally raped and murdered a teenager in Spencer County in 2001 will continue to sit on death row after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of his petition for habeas corpus relief.

    Roy Ward knocked on the door of the home of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. After she let him in, he assaulted her and injured her so severely she eventually died from her injuries. An officer responding to the scene caught Ward standing in the home and took him into custody.

    He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death but that verdict was overturned because the Indiana Supreme Court believed Ward was denied the right to a fair trial when his trial was moved. At his second trial in Vanderburgh County, he pleaded guilty to murder and rape. One of his attorneys, Lorinda Youngcourt, was overworked as she was handing other capital cases at the same time. As a result, mitigating evidence wasn’t prepared as intended and the attorneys decided to tell the jury that Ward was a psychopath and shouldn’t be put to death because he is insane.

    The jury recommended the death penalty, which was imposed by the special judge. Ward exhausted his state court appeals and turned to the federal court for relief, but the district court denied his petition for habeas corpus.

    “Even assuming that Ward’s attorneys performed deficiently when they pounded into the jury’s mind the idea that Ward is a psychopath — not merely someone suffering from severe antisocial personality disorder — we cannot say that the state court’s conclusion that there was no prejudice was unreasonable,” Chief Judge Diane Wood wrote.

    The judges found the Indiana Supreme Court reasonably applied Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984).

    Wood also noted that Ward was not prejudiced by his counsels’ performance because of the mountain of evidence against him.

    http://www.theindianalawyer.com/deat.../article/41299

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    How much longer till SCOTUS denies and we can see his X-date carried out finally?
    I have been following this case for 3 1/2 years and want to see this over.
    This murderer deserves to be put to death!

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    On October 11, 2016, the Seventh Circuit DENIED Ward's petition for en banc rehearing.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search....es\16-8318.htm
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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    From the USSC website:

    No. 16-8318 *** CAPITAL CASE ***
    Title: Roy L. Ward, Petitioner
    v.
    Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison
    Docketed: March 14, 2017
    Linked with 16A628
    Lower ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
    Case Nos.: (16-1001)
    Decision date: August 26, 2016
    Rehearing denied: October 11, 2016

    ~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Dec 20 2016 Application (16A628) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 9, 2017 to March 10, 2017, submitted to Justice Kagan.
    Dec 28 2016 Application (16A628) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until March 10, 2017.
    Mar 10 2017 Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 13, 2017)
    Apr 13 2017 Brief of respondent Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison in opposition filed.
    Apr 21 2017 Reply of petitioner Roy L. Ward filed.
    May 3 2017 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of May 18, 2017.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....es/16-8318.htm
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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    This is encouraging to see it distributed for conference. If Justice Neil Gorsuch joins the other 4, we may yet see Indiana set an X-Date. Thanks for the update Aaron!

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    What makes you think that Indiana will set an x-date? They already have three ready to go.

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Ward's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
    Case Nos.: (16-1001)
    Decision date: August 26, 2016
    Rehearing denied: October 11, 2016
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Court: Indiana death penalty protocol ‘void’

    Indiana’s means of carrying out the death penalty through lethal injection “is void and without effect,” the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday, reversing a death row inmate’s challenge to the Department of Correction’s execution protocol.

    Judge John Baker wrote for the court the Department of Correction was bound to enact new lethal-injection protocols under the state’s Administrative Rules and Procedure Act, subject to public comment, which it did not do. Failing to do so voids a protocol DOC adopted in May 2014, the court ruled, tossing out the state’s means of execution via a fatal three-drug cocktail that has never been used in any state or federal execution.

    “Finding the General Assembly has not exempted the DOC from ARPA and that the statutory definition of ‘rule’ clearly includes the DOC’s execution protocols, we reverse,” Baker wrote for the Court in Roy Lee Ward v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Correction, and Ron Neal, Superintendent of the Indiana State Prison, in their official capacities, 46A03-1607-PL-1685.

    The ruling remands the case brought by Ward to LaPorte Circuit Court, where Judge Thomas J. Alevizos previously dismissed the suit.

    Ward was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne in Spencer County. He is one of 12 people on Indiana’s death row at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.

    http://www.theindianalawyer.com/cour.../article/43874
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