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morningfog

(18,115 posts) Tue Jan 28, 2014, 11:53 PM Jan 2014

US Supreme Court orders stay of execution

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smulls.

Justice Samuel Alito signed the order that was sent out Tuesday night after President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech.

Smulls' lawyers had made last-minute pleas Tuesday to spare his life, focusing on the state's refusal to disclose from which compounding pharmacy they obtain the lethal-injection drug, pentobarbital. Missouri has argued the compounding pharmacy is part of the execution team — and therefore its name cannot be released to the public.

http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/US-Supreme-Court-orders-stay-of-execution-5182338.php