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Stay of Alabama Execution by Lethal Injection

The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday stayed the execution of James Harvey Callahan, an Alabama man sentenced to death for murder who challenged lethal injection procedures.

The stay follows the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s decision to lift an earlier stay of Callahan’s execution that was put in place by a district judge in light of the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision in Baze v. Rees. The Eleventh Circuit had held that Callahan did not timely file his constitutional objection to lethal injection. If Callahan’s petition for writ of certiorari is denied, the stay on his execution will terminate.

Source: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/01/us-supreme-court-stays-execution-of.php