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Military executions in the works

As detailed in this news article, “President Bush has been asked to authorize the executions of two men who have been on the military’s death row at Fort Leavenworth for a combined 35 years.”  Notably, the method of execution to be used by the military would be lethal injection, so any capital plans could be impacted by the scrummages over the constitutionality of lethal injection (background here and here).