That's the headline of a Delaware Online report by Sean O'Sullivan. LINK
A judge has ordered parties involved in the federal civil rights lawsuit over Delaware's use of lethal injection to mediation.
District Judge Sue L. Robinson directed attorneys for Delaware and public defenders representing the state's death row inmates to submit proposals and resolve any outstanding issues with Magistrate Judge Mary Pat Thynge.
While dates for the submissions were set, no date for a final resolution was indicated in Robinson's order.
Attorneys on both sides have declined comment.
Robinson noted in the order that a hearing set for earlier this month, at which both sides were supposed to debate the policies and procedures used by Delaware in carrying out lethal injection executions, was called off because the state has agreed to adopt protocols that were approved earlier this year by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The class action lawsuit, which has held up all executions in Delaware since 2006, claimed the state's execution protocols were so flawed as to risk unconstitutional pain and suffering by the condemned.
StandDown's lethal injection index is here.
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