Judge OKs Use of Lethal Injection
A judge in Orlando, Fla., gave state corrections officials the go-ahead to carry out Florida’s first lethal injection since the state changed its primary execution method from the electric chair. Circuit Judge O.H. Eaton Jr. rejected arguments that the method was unconstitutional and that corrections officials were ill-prepared. Death row inmate Terry Sims had challenged the constitutionality of the state’s new law, passed last month. His execution is scheduled for Feb. 23 for the 1977 murder of a retired New York City Police officer during a pharmacy robbery.
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