Attorneys for death row inmate Taberon Honie argue that if Utah goes forward with his scheduled execution, it would violate the Utah Constitution which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
With weeks to go before Taberon Honie ’s scheduled execution, his attorneys have filed a new lawsuit raising concerns about the never-before-used drug combination Utah officials expect to use to kill the death row inmate.
Honie’s attorney, Eric Zuckerman, argued in the lawsuit that prison officials may be hesitant to update the 2010 protocols because they know it could possibly open the door for Honie to appeal the new version. Zuckerman argued that prison officials have tried to make written plans outside of the official protocol for how the execution will happen. But what’s been proposed, he argued, “have been piecemeal, incomplete, and at times, incoherent.”
The new lawsuit indicates that prison officials have obtained the drugs they plan to use to execute Honie. But it appears they were caught flat-footed when the Utah attorney general’s office sought an execution warrant. Honie’s attorney noted that lethal injections result in the most botched executions around the country, and expressed his concern about the untested combination that the state plans to use — which he said the state selected on the recommendation of a pharmacist, not a trained medical doctor.
He also argued that both drugs have a “ceiling effect for pain relief,” meaning that at a certain dosage, it doesn’t provide any further pain relief. He said that for both drugs, the ceiling effect occurs at half the dose that Utah authorities plan to use at Honie’s execution.
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