Attorneys hope to argue SD execution protocol case

Published October 5, 2012 9:52pm ET



SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Arkansas attorneys ready to challenge the constitutionality of South Dakota’s newly adopted one-drug execution protocol face an unexpected obstacle: their own client.

Donald Moeller says he’s ready to die for the 1990 slaying of 9-year-old Becky O’Connell. He wants the federal case bearing his name dismissed.

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