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21 Sep 2007, 5:45 am
District Judge Aleta Trauger ruled Wednesday that Tennessee's lethalinjection procedures are cruel and unusual punishment, delaying an executionplanned for next week.The new protocol, released in April, "presents a substantial risk ofunnecessary pain" and violates death-row inmate Edward Jerome Harbison'sconstitutional protections under the Eighth Amendment, Trauger said. [read post]
21 Sep 2007, 5:41 am
District Judge Aleta Trauger suspended the state'slethal-injection procedures, ruling they constitute cruel and unusualpunishment, which is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.This put on hold what could become the third execution of a Tennessee deathrow prisoner this year. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 10:27 am
Federal judge Aleta Trauger said inmates were not properly anesthetised before the injection was administered. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 7:15 am
The decision by Judge Aleta Trauger could delay all executions in the state unless a higher court intervenes. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 6:49 pm
US District Judge Aleta Trauger [official profile] held that revised death penalty protocols [PDF text; JURIST report], devised by the Tennessee Department of Corrections in April at the request of Tennessee Gov. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 12:18 pm
District Judge Aleta Trauger ruled that Tennessee's lethal injection procedures violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment by presenting "a substantial risk of unnecessary pain. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 12:04 pm
A loyal reader informs me that Federal District Judge Aleta Trauger in Tennessee has ruled in favor of death row inmate Edward Harbison's challenge to that state's lethal injection procedure. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 11:48 am
District Judge Aleta Trauger's ruling could halt an execution scheduled for next week.A spokeswoman for the state attorney general's office said the office will decide whether to appeal after reviewing the decision.Death row inmate Edward Jerome Harbison was scheduled to be executed early next Wednesday for the 1983 beating death of an elderly woman.The order does not give him a stay of execution. [read post]
17 Mar 2005, 12:51 am
[JURIST] US District Court Judge Aleta Trauger ruled Wednesday that plaintiffs in a class-action suit against Primus Automotive Financial Services [corporate website], a lending unit of Ford Motor Co. [read post]