Lawyers for a death row inmate say Alabama should be forced to disclose more information about lethal injection procedures. A-P-R’s Stan Ingold reports, they’re concerned about the drugs used in the procedure.
Attorneys for inmate Tommy Arthur in a court filing say the state needs to disclose information including how the drugs are delivered, how inmate consciousness is monitored and the expiration dates of drugs in hand.
The state is seeking to resume executions after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Oklahoma's use of the sedative midazolam, the same drug that Alabama plans to begin using.
A federal judge must decide what to do with Arthur's challenge to the use of the drug as cruel and unusual punishment.
The Alabama attorney general's office says that the drug has been ruled legal. Arthur's lawyer says Alabama's protocol is different from Oklahoma's.
The first preseason college football poll is out, and the University of Alabama checks in at number three.
In the Amway Coaches Poll, The Crimson Tide is behind National Champion Ohio State and Texas Christian University. Rounding out the Top Five is Baylor and Oregon.
The Southeastern Conference has eight teams in the Top 25 of the coaches poll. In addition to Alabama at Number Three, Auburn is seventh, Georgia is ninth and LSU is thirteenth.
Ole Miss is at number 15, Arkansas is 20th, Missouri is 23rd and Tennessee is 25th.
The city of Mobile is helping to bring a piece of World War Two history to life. Today marks seventy years since the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis.
The ship was torpedoed after delivering the first atomic bomb. A film crew is in Mobile to shoot a motion picture about the Indianapolis starring actor Nicolas Cage.
Eva Golson is the director of the Mobile Film Office. She says they want people to know what happened to our military and how they defended our country.
“It’s a good story to tell about what happened during the war and what these men had to go through. It’s very heart rendering, men in the water for so long with sharks, nobody knew they were missing, so it’s a very sad story, but also shows what our military people have to go through.”
Golson says quite a bit of downtown mobile and orange beach were used as sets in the movie. It will be finished this week and has a tentative release date of next Memorial Day.