|
MIAMI (AP) - A veteran Associated Press reporter and three other journalists who covered a botched execution were subpoenaed to testify in another inmate's challenge to Florida's lethal injection practices.
Attorneys for death row inmate Ian Deco Lightbourne, convicted in the 1981 murder of a Marion County woman, also want the reporters to disclose their notes from the Dec. 13 execution of Angel Diaz.
Diaz took 34 minutes to die — twice as long as usual — and Lightbourne's attorneys say those problems support their claims that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
|