A correction officer patrols outside the Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute, as Daniel Lewis Lee is set to be put to death in the first federal execution in 17 years, in Indiana July 13, 2020. — Reuters pic
“The scientific evidence before the court overwhelmingly indicates that the 2019 Protocol is very likely to cause Plaintiffs extreme pain and needless suffering during their executions,” Chutkan wrote in her order. To make their deaths less painful, the inmates have proposed that the Justice Department add morphine or a similar painkiller to the lethal injection protocol, or arrange for them to be executed by firing squad, a method last used a decade ago by Utah's government.
A previous injunction issued by Chutkan on different grounds last year, postponing the original execution dates set in December, was overturned on appeal. “The government has been trying to plow forward with these executions despite many unanswered questions about the legality of its new execution protocol,” Shawn Nolan, one of the public defenders representing the inmates, said in a statement.
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