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Back in 1999, Zane Michael Floyd walked into a supermarket in Las Vegas, Nevada with a shotgun and murdered four people. A fifth person survived a shotgun blast but was hospitalized. Floyd was convicted on all counts and sentenced to death. The usual rounds of appeals have played out, with what appeared to be his last chance failing in November of 2020. But while Floyd was scheduled to have already gone to room temperature, his attorneys have launched a new plan. They have objected to the lethal injection method of executing their client, saying that he prefers to face a firing squad. But can they legally make that request? That’s the question a court is wrestling with now. (Yahoo News)
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The most jaw-dropping outlay has been made by Arizona, a state in which Republicans hold both chambers of the legislature and the governor’s mansion. A single-page heavily redacted document obtained by the Guardian records that last October the department of corrections ordered 1,000 vials of pentobarbital sodium salt, each containing 1mg, to be shipped in “unmarked jars and boxes”.
At the bottom of the document, the record states: “Amount paid: $1,500,000.”
Arizona’s extraordinary $1.5m payment starkly illustrates the lengths to which the state is prepared to go to kill death row prisoners. Pentobarbital is a sedative that is used in Arizona executions, with 5 grams being injected into the inmate to induce a fatal overdose.