Judge: Public has right to view entirety of executions

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Judge: Public has right to view entirety of executions

Astrid Galvan, Associated Press
Updated 9:14 pm, Wednesday, December 21, 2016


PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge in Phoenix on Wednesday said the state of Arizona must allow witnesses to view the entirety of an execution, including each time drugs are administered, marking a partial legal win for a coalition of news organizations that filed a lawsuit over secrecy surrounding lethal injections.

The lawsuit is one of two challenging the way executions are carried out in Arizona that were filed in the nearly two-hour death of Joseph Rudolph Wood in 2014. Wood was administered 15 doses of a two-drug combination before he finally died.

The Associated Press is one of the organizations involved in the lawsuit filed by news organizations.

U.S. District Judge Murray Snow on Wednesday also denied requests for summary judgment by the news organizations and the state.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Judge-Public-has-right-to-view-entirety-of-10812135.php

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1. will be overturned. We have no such "right". nt

[treestar]

3. Any proceeding in the legal system

should be public, with a few exceptions. Family Courts may have exceptions, ours does. If they didn't, maybe the divorce rate would go down. But when there are children involved it makes sense.

[Turbineguy]

2. TV rights

selling pay-per-view would help offset the extra cost of the death penalty and provide some entertainment.

After all, if you die on TV, you haven't died for nothing, you've entertained us!

Trump supporters would eat that shit with a small spoon!