A federal judge will decide whether to block Mississippi from using three drugs when it puts inmates to death
, and his ruling could determine whether the state carries out its next execution in about two weeks.
The mother of the 16-year-old girl killed by Loden watched the court hearing. Wanda Farris of Fulton said she has waited 22 years for justice for her daughter, Leesa Gray. “Let's talk about Leesa and the inhumane things he put her through,” Pearce said outside the courtroom. Attorneys for the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center sued the Mississippi prison system, saying the state’s lethal injection protocol is inhumane.
Mississippi and several other states have had trouble finding drugs for lethal injections in recent years since pharmaceutical companies in the United States and Europe began blocking the use of their drugs for executions.
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