The Baltimore Sun Times reported Vernon L. Evans Jr., a death row prisoner, is challenging Maryland’s lethal injection procedures. Attorneys argued that Evan’s previous heroin use left his veins in a state where lethal injection may not sufficiently sedate him, thus exposing him to severe pain during execution. Evans was convicted of the contract killings in 1983 and was sentenced to death 14 years ago.

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