Lethal injections upheld in Tennessee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Tennessee judge has upheld the state’s lethal-injection process for executing inmates.
Davidson County Chancery Judge Claudia Bonnyman said Wednesday from the bench that the plaintiffs, 33 death row inmates, didn’t prove that the one-drug method led to a painful and lingering death.
She also said the plaintiffs didn’t show during a lengthy trial that there have been problems in states where the method has been used.
There was no immediate comment from attorneys for either side.
Tennessee has not executed an inmate for more than five years because of legal challenges and problems obtaining lethal-injection drugs.
Lawmakers moved from a three-drug lethal- injection method to a one-drug method and to reinstate the electric chair as a backup.
Wal-Mart to stop semi-automatic sales
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Wal-Mart will stop selling the AR-15 rifle and other semi-automatic weapons at its stores because fewer people are buying them, a spokesman said Wednesday.
The AR-15 rifles and other modern sporting rifles were being sold at less than a third of the company’s 4,600 U.S. stores.
Company spokesman Kory Lundberg said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will remove the remaining inventory as stores transition from summer to fall merchandise, which should take a week or two to complete.
Lundberg said the decision to remove the weapons was not political and that the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer made the decision earlier this year.
Lundberg said the company had seen a decrease in sales of the particular models of guns.
Associated Press
