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WASHINGTON (AP) - Death row inmates in more than a dozen states are fighting lethal injection, and with surprising success. What once appeared to be a long-shot legal argument now seems to be gaining ground.
Judges from California to Louisiana, and even at the nation's highest court, are entangled in disputes between state prison officials and inmates who claim their executions may be painful.
The eventual outcome of the cases could be sweeping because every state that has capital punishment, except for Nebraska, has lethal injection. Nebraska uses only the electric chair.
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