January 2014

The United States Supreme Court has stayed the execution of Herbert Smulls by the State of Missouri, but the argument isn’t because Missouri is doing some strange new combination of untested drugs in a lethal injection method – no, the argument surrounds whether or not the identity of the supplier of pentobarbital must be revealed.

Image: Terence Lenamon in foreground, with client Andrew Castor and Terry’s co-defense counsel, LenamonLaw’s Melissa Ortiz, during trial. Photo by Marisa Kendall / The News-Press

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Pictured above is Terry Lenamon at work during the recent trial of Andrew Castor over in Cape Coral, Florida.  The death penalty was taken off the table early

The State of Oklahoma executed Michael Lee Wilson yesterday by lethal injection.

News media reports are that almost immediately after the injection process began (within 20 seconds), Wilson said, ‘I feel my whole body burning  yet his body didn’t react in such a way that any of the witnesses could see his