A death row inmate scheduled to be executed this month continues to mount challenges to the state’s newly adopted lethal-injection procedure — never before used in Florida or any other state — but Attorney General Pam Bondi’s lawyers are urging the Florida Supreme Court to reject the latest attempt.
Gov. Rick Scott ordered Mark James Asay to be executed on Aug. 24, essentially ending a hold on the state’s death penalty caused by a series of court rulings. Asay is scheduled to be put to death more than 19 months after Scott originally signed a death warrant in his case.
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