Lethal Injection Challenged as Cruel and Unusual

The Time reports on a Caddo District Court hearing that will consider whether execution by lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Lawyers with the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana are arguing on behalf of Nathaniel Code. Code was sentenced to die in 1991 by a Caddo District Court jury and has spent 13 years on death row for murdering four people in Shreveport. Testimony is expected to last all week and Angola Warden Burl Cain is among 15 witnesses scheduled to testify.

Posted by AJR at February 11, 2003 10:37 AM