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Attorneys for death row inmates in Virginia and Delaware argued Wednesday that their states' lethal injection procedures need changing despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the most widely used method of execution. Some of the 35 states that use lethal injection moved swiftly to schedule executions put on hold for seven months while the Supreme Court considered a Kentucky case arguing that lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment. Georgia became the first to kill an inmate last week. But death row inmates in other states continue to press legal challenges on similar grounds, and federal courts held separate hearings Wednesday on two such cases. In Delaware, death row inmates have filed a class-action lawsuit claiming the state's lethal injection method is substantially different from the Kentucky method. Virginia inmate Christopher Scott Emmett claims the state Department of Corrections presents a substantial risk of harm because it does not allow the option of a second dose of anesthesia to make sure the inmate is unconscious before paralyzing and heart-stopping drugs are injected.


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