A US judge has rejected a request from the state of Montana to change its execution protocol for prisoners on death row. Lawyers for two condemned inmates, including Ronald Smith of Red Deer, Alberta, had argued that a sedative called for under Montana's lethal injection protocols was an "ultra-fast-acting" barbiturate. Judge Jeffrey Sherlock has ruled that it is not. Lawyer Ron Waterman from the American Civil Liberties Union says that's good news. (Sherlock says the state can either try to find another drug that would qualify or ask the state legislature to pass a new law.)

Date: 2015-10-06
Placeline: HELENA, Montana.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 20 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << the course Waters Sanctuary says it all and that is at the state of Montana is enjoying that means they cannot proceed forward from using pentobarbital in the lethal injection protocol unless and until the statute authorizing lethal injection is modified consistent with the opinion >>

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