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    He definitely didn't ask for the chair. He just filed a successive stay request for nitrogen.

    Update 1:25 p.m. - Christopher Price’s attorneys have filed an emergency motion to a federal judge in Mobile seeking a preliminary injunction to halt tonight’s execution. The motion states that despite the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeal’s rejection Wednesday of Price’s appeal that the court did confirm “that Price had demonstrated a substantial likelihood of showing that nitrogen hypoxia is an ‘available’ method of execution that the State could use relatively easily and reasonably quickly on Mr. Price as an alternative to the midazolam lethal injection protocol ‘that will cause him severe pain and needless suffering ... The 11th Circuit held that the evidentiary record was insufficient on a single discrete factual issue—whether execution by nitrogen hypoxia would be essentially painless for Mr. Price.”

    Update 3:15 p.m. - The Alabama Attorney General’s office has responded to an emergency motion to a federal judge in Mobile to halt the execution. “This Court should refuse to grant Price’s motion for a stay primarily because he waited too late to request this relief.” The state had also previously said that Price did not sign up for nitrogetn hypoxia execution (an unused and untested method) when death row inmates were given a deadline.

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    Alabama Southern District Court just issued a 60 day stay. State will likely appeal.

    https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/files/p...2019-04-11.pdf
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    Once again, here we have a failure to communicate, compounded by hubris and outright incompetence.

    It boggles my mind that a state can pass legislation allowing nitrogen asphyxia as a method of execution, and then not provide funding, or whatever it takes, for the state's DOC to develop a protocol posthaste!

    Setting up apparatus to test the protocol is laughably inexpensive. Either you test a disposable anesthesia mask duct-taped to a large mammal, or you make an airtight room (duct tape to the rescue again) and pump nitrogen into the room fast enough to displace the air. Again, you use a large barnyard animal, such as a pig, sheep, horse or cow.

    Then the ASPCA and/or PETA will sue the state(s) to prevent such nefarious use of non-human citizens of this planet as test subjects.

    Once that legal wrangling is shot down, then the eager-beaver appeals attorneys will tie up implementation of nitrogen asphyxia for years and years.

    Sigh.

    Maybe the states offering nitrogen asphyxia as a method of execution might want to offer the firing squad as an alternative instead . . .
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    Quote Originally Posted by mostlyclassics View Post
    Then the ASPCA and/or PETA will sue the state(s) to prevent such nefarious use of non-human citizens of this planet as test subjects.
    The only legitimate concern that PETA has is that the DOC might end up stealing its kills.
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    How about they offer a method of execution they can realistically carry out in a months time?
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    The district court reversed after the 11th affirmed it, and directly violated the 11th's finding. Clown ruling by a clown judiciary. Honk!

    Update 5:32 p.m.- The Alabama Attorney General’s Office is appealing the federal court’s stay to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

    Update 5:10 p.m.- Samantha Banks, an ADOC spokesperson, said Price’s last request was to be married to his fiancée. He was married Wednesday in the visitation yard at Holman.

    Price was visited by his wife, an aunt, and an uncle on Thursday. Wednesday, he made four phone calls to attorneys, one to his wife, and one to an aunt. There were no records of phone calls Thursday.

    Price refused his breakfast, but asked for and received two pints of turtle track ice cream for his final meal.

    If Price is executed, he will have several witnesses: His wife, two aunts, an uncle, and cousin.

    There will be six witnesses from the victim, Bill Lynn’s, family: The victim’s wife Bessie Lynn, the couple’s two daughters, two grandsons, and Bill Lynn’s brother.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaron View Post
    The district court reversed after the 11th affirmed it, and directly violated the 11th's finding. Clown ruling by a clown judiciary. Honk!
    That isn't fair to the district court judge because with her original reasoning she would have denied it again. She didn't violate the 11th's finding, rather the opposite: she stayed the execution because of the 11th's circuit. The only reason why the 11th circuit denied the appeal was that the lawyers filed a preliminary report as evidence that had 'don't cite' stamped on it. On their next try the lawyers filed the final version and you can guess the outcome...

    https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/files/p...2019-04-11.pdf

    Alabama did something stupid by allowing nitrogen hypoxia as method and then claiming in court the method isn't available while they did nothing to actually implement it. The only reason it isn't available was the Alabama government sitting on their hands, no wonder a judge doesn't buy that defense. Either allow the method and implement it or don't allow it all.
    Last edited by Joost; 04-11-2019 at 05:49 PM.

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    The 11th Circuit ruled price didn't prove nitrogen would be less painful than lethal injection. Just as SCOTUS did with Bucklew. Yet this judge issues a stay on precisely these grounds.
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    Indeed. This was their judgement because the evidence provided was a preliminary report, according to themselves.

    The Eleventh Circuit held that the East Central University report that Mr. Price had submitted—a report in which the authors concluded that nitrogen hypoxia causes brief euphoria and rapid loss of consciousness, but not any significant pain—was not sufficiently reliable because it was a preliminary draft “stamped with the words ‘Do Not Cite.’

    Yet this judge issues a stay on precisely these grounds.
    The hands of the district court were tied when the lawyers showed up with the final report with identical content. If you want to blame anyone, blame the 11th circuit, not the district court judge.
    Last edited by Joost; 04-11-2019 at 05:58 PM.

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