WA changes execution method
By RACHEL LA CORTE (AP) – March 3, 2010

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state has changed its method of execution
from a three-drug cocktail to a one-drug system.

State Attorney General Rob McKenna filed paperwork with the state
Supreme Court on Tuesday asking it to dismiss portions of an appeal
by death-row inmate Darold Stenson. The state argues that the part of
the appeal challenging the constitutionality of the drug protocol is
moot, since the state made the decision last Thursday to change its
policy on execution.

The state Department of Corrections is in the process of rewriting
the execution policy that will make Washington state the second in
the nation to use the one-drug method.

Ohio became the first in January following a botched execution in
September.

The Associated Press

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