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October 28, 2010

Arizona Executes Prisoner after Supreme Court Lifts Stay
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Arizona has executed a prisoner by lethal injection after the Supreme
Court overturned a temporary stay. Jeffrey Landrigan had been on death
row for twenty years for a 1989 murder conviction. His lawyers had
sought to force Arizona officials to disclose whether the drugs used for
his lethal injection were legally obtained. An appeals court sided with
the defense, but the Supreme Court overruled the decision earlier this
week.



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