Inmates want execution team named
Lawyers for five death row inmates are pressing Missouri to identify members of its execution team after a newspaper revealed that a nurse on the team was once accused of stalking.
The lawyers filed papers last week in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, arguing that the executioner’s criminal record raises questions about his “temperament and suitability” to help with executions.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch named the nurse in an article last week, in violation of state law. The newspaper revealed that he was on probation in 2001 when he worked on executions and was allowed to join a federal team that executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh in Indiana.
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