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Alabama Halts Execution of Cancer Sufferer over Collapsed Veins

HeadlineFeb 23, 2018

Meanwhile, Alabama has postponed the execution of death row prisoner Doyle Lee Hamm after medical staff decided they were unable to find a viable vein where they could inject lethal drugs. The postponement came after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Hamm’s argument that he has compromised veins from cancer and past drug use that would have made his execution by lethal injection unconstitutionally cruel.

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