MGN-AFRICA»» pin:2A123D88 Oklahoma asks court to dismiss lawsuit brought in wake of botched execution: Plaintiffs in lawsuit, including ACLU and The Guardian, claim bearing witness to executions is first amendment right Oklahoma has asked a federal court to dismiss a first amendment lawsuit filed after the botched execution of Clayton Lockett on the grounds that having members of the public witness an execution does not play any particularly positive role. Oklahoma assistant attorney general M Daniel Weitman filed a motion for dismissal of the lawsuit, which was brought in the US district court for the western district of Oklahoma in August by the ACLU, The Guardian, The Oklahoma Observer and journalist Katie Fretland, who reported on the execution for the Guardian. The plaintiffs claim that bearing witness to executions is a first amendment right, and contested the states decision to draw a curtain midway through the execution, prohibiting witnesses from seeing what was happening in the death chamber. Continue reading... bit.ly/1kcSHfb pin:2A123D88
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:36:34 +0000
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