Attorneys argue Atwood's spinal condition would make it excruciatingly painful for him to be strapped on his back to a gurney before he is lethally injected.
At a hearing Monday before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, a lawyer for Frank Atwood also questioned whether the state has met a requirement that the lethal injection drug’s expiration date falls after the execution date.
PHOENIX (AP) An attorney for an Arizona death-row prisoner has urged an appeals court to call off the execution scheduled for Wednesday of his client who was convicted in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl, arguing the condemned man’s spinal condition would make it excruciatingly painful for him to be strapped on his back to a gurney before he is lethally injected.