However, the state said it could not comply with a key part of Gaitan's order: Officials said they had contacted 298 anesthesiologists in Missouri and southern Illinois, and none was willing to participate in executions. The state also asserted that the judge had overstepped his bounds in requiring a board-certified anesthesiologist.
Attorneys for Michael Taylor, the death row inmate who filed suit earlier this year, said in court papers Monday that Missouri's new procedures fell short of what was required under the 8th Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment.
"The state's proposed protocol … utterly fails to protect inmates from the errors, ad hoc improvisations, and poor judgment of inadequately trained personnel forced to carry out executions without adequate guidance," the brief said.
Whether (and how) America can survive Trumpism
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Georgetown Professor Thomas Zimmer joins us to talk about polarization and
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