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Episcopal bishop weighs in on planned executions
Three inmates set to die; previous execution botched
By JIM SALTER
http://www.modbee.com/
June 17, 2014
Episcopal Bishop of Atlanta Robert Wright, left, and the Rev. Joseph Shippen, rector of Christ Church, Griffin, Georgia, speak out against the Florida execution
Convicted killers in three states were facing executions within a 24-hour period starting Tuesday night, potentially the first lethal injections in the nation since a botched execution in Oklahoma seven weeks ago.
All the states planning executions Florida, Georgia and Missouri refuse to say where they get their drugs, or if they are tested. Lawyers for two of the condemned inmates have challenged the secretive process used by some states to obtain lethal injection drugs from unidentified, loosely regulated compounding pharmacies.
Nine executions nationwide have been stayed or postponed since late April, when Oklahoma prison officials halted the execution of Clayton Lockett after noting that the lethal injection drugs werent being administered into his vein properly. Locketts punishment was halted and he died of a heart attack several minutes later.< ![CDATA[
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