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    Christopher Lee Price - Alabama Execution - May 30, 2019






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    Price, of Winfield, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1993 for murdering Church of Christ minister Billy Lynn, 57, with a knife and a sword at his Fayette County home on December 22, 1991.

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    CHRISTOPHER LEE PRICE versus RICHARD F. ALLEN

    In today's opinions, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals AFFIRMED the district court's denial of Price's petition for habeas relief.
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    CHRISTOPHER LEE PRICE V. RICHARD F. ALLEN

    In today's opinions, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals DENIED Price's petition for rehearing en banc.
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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Price's petition for writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

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    State adopts new execution drugs, seeks death date for 9 inmates

    MONTGOMERY — Alabama this week adopted a new drug protocol for executions by lethal injection and began seeking execution dates for nine inmates on death row.

    Those inmates saw their execution dates indefinitely postponed earlier this year, when state officials ran out of drugs used in executions.

    Several states have faced shortages of those drugs in recent years, largely because drug manufacturers in Europe — where there's substantial opposition to capital punishment — have refused to sell drugs to states for use in executions. In response to the shortage, several states have sought out new combinations of lethal injection drugs.

    Some death-row inmates have filed suits arguing that the use of those experimental drug combinations could lead to pain during executions, violating the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

    Tommy Arthur is one of those inmates. Arthur, sentenced to death for the murder-for-hire of a Muscle Shoals man in the 1980s, was originally scheduled for lethal injection in 2012. He filed suit on the grounds that the state had only recently switched to a new lethal injection drug, pentobarbital. Two other Alabama inmates have similar suits pending.

    State officials acknowledged in March that Alabama no longer had a supply of pentobarbital — leaving Alabama without the drugs it needed to carry out executions.

    In motions filed Thursday with the Alabama Supreme Court, state officials say they now have a new drug protocol for executions. Under the protocol, adopted Wednesday, inmates would be injected with midazolam hydrochloride, an anesthetic; rocuronium bromide to relax the muscles; and potassium chloride to induce cardiac arrest.

    The drug combination is "virtually identical to Florida's newly-revised protocol which has been ruled constitutional," according to the state's motion.

    The protocol has been used for seven executions in Florida, the motion states.

    Midazolam, the first drug in the protocol, has been used in botched executions in other states this year. An Ohio execution in January took 25 minutes, with the inmate gasping for breath, according to accounts in the press. In May, an Oklahoma inmate died 43 minutes after first being lethally injected. Both executions used midazolam.

    Florida’s recent executions haven’t presented the same problems, said Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit group which studies the death penalty.

    Still, Dieter said, problems might be harder to spot under Florida’s drug protocol because the second drug in the sequence paralyzes the inmate.

    “It’s hard to tell when a paralytic is the second drug,” Dieter said. “They could be conscious or experiencing pain, but they can’t show that.”

    The state filed nine motions seeking execution dates for Arthur as well as inmates David Lee Roberts, Anthony Boyd, Christopher Eugene Brooks, Demetrius Frazier, Gregory Hunt, William Ernest Kuenzel, Robin Dee Myers and Christopher Lee Price.

    The motion in Arthur's case was the first to come to light Friday morning. The Star's attempts to reach Arthur's lawyer, Suhana Han, were not immediately successful Friday morning.

    Jennifer Ardis, a spokeswoman for Gov. Robert Bentley, said the state was ready to carry out the executions.

    "Obviously, the decision to execute an inmate is a serious one, and the governor supports the legal process," Ardis said. "We have a new protocol and the Department of Corrections is ready to carry out an execution order."

    One Alabama death penalty opponent said she didn’t understand the drive to resume executions.

    “I’m disgusted,” said Esther Brown, an activist for Project Hope for Abolition of the Death Penalty. “I’m disgusted with our compulsion, our need, to kill. I just don’t understand it.”

    The state hasn’t executed an inmate since July 2013, when Andrew Reid Lackey died by lethal injection for the 2005 murder of an Athens man.

    http://www.annistonstar.com/news/art...1c5521f3f.html

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    Alabama Death-Row Inmate Challenges Untested Lethal Injection

    Alabama's new, untested execution method has drawn a challenge from a death-row inmate who says the three-drug lethal injection will cause an excruciating death. The state hasn't put anyone to death for more than a year after it ran out of the chemical it used for executions. In September, Alabama unveiled a new protocol that includes a drug that was used in several flawed lethal injections in other states — then asked a court to schedule executions for nine condemned men.

    One of those inmates, Christopher Lee Price, filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday saying the new protocol amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of the U.S. Constitution. Price, who was convicted in the 1991 stabbing death of a minister, contends that the sedative midazolam will not stop him from feeling pain from the other two drugs, a paralytic called rocuronium bromide and the heart-stopping postassium chloride.

    "Potassium chloride is a uniquely painful drug," said Price's lawyer, Aaron Katz. He contends that the paralytic masks a prisoner's suffering. Katz is also filing papers to ask a state court to hold off on setting execution dates until Price's federal challenge is resolved. Another death-row inmate, Tommy Arthur, is challenging the new protocol in a different federal court.

    Midazolam has been used in the troubled executions of three inmates this year: Joseph Wood, who gasped and took two hours to die in Arizona; Clayton Lockett, who regained consciousness and writhed in pain in Oklahoma; and Dennis McGuire, who also appeared to gasp and took 25 minutes to die.

    The Alabama attorney general's office had no immediate comment.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/let...ection-n222101
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    On February 20, 2018, oral argument will be heard in Price's appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

    http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/sites/d...c_CAL_Rev1.pdf

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    The 11th Circuit denied Price's challenge to midazolam today and affirmed the District Court.

    https://cases.justia.com/federal/app...?ts=1537376678
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    An execution date has been set for April 11.

    https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/upcoming-executions
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    Alabama set to execute Christopher Price in April

    A man convicted of killing a minister in Fayette County is set to be executed next month.

    The Alabama Supreme Court set an execution date for Christopher Lee Price on Thursday, April 11. Price was at the center of a lawsuit in 2014 seeking to block the state from setting an execution date, because of what the inmate called a “prolonged, excruciating and needless pain,” caused by the three-drug lethal injection cocktail.

    The next year, the Alabama Attorney General’s Office asked the federal courts to dismiss Price’s lawsuit.

    Price, 46, was convicted in the 1991 robbery and slaying of Bill Lynn. Lynn, a minister at Natural Springs Church of Christ, was fatally stabbed outside his home in the Bazemore community three days before Christmas. Court records state Lynn was putting together Christmas presents for his grandchildren, when the power went out. He walked outside to check the power box when he was attacked.

    His wife, Bessie Lynn, was wounded.

    Lynn died en route to a local hospital. Price was arrested in Tennessee several days later, and was convicted in 1993. Jurors sentenced Price to death by a vote of 10-2 and the trial judge upheld their recommendation.

    Price’s execution date is the second set in 2019, following the execution of Domineque Ray in February. Ray was convicted of killing a teenage girl in Selma in 1995, and raised a legal battle shortly before his death regarding the issue of having his Muslim spiritual adviser, or imam, inside the execution chamber. The AG’s Office and courts denied Ray’s request, and he was executed by lethal injection without his imam or the Christian prison chaplain at his side.

    https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2...-in-april.html
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