MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama's top prosecutor says an inmate's request for a stay of execution should be denied because he waited too long to complain about the state's execution drug protocol.
Attorney General Luther Strange said in a court filing Friday that Christopher Brooks isn't entitled to a stay of execution because his complaint about drugs could have been brought before midazolam was added to the combination.
Brooks has joined ongoing litigation arguing that midazolam is ineffective as a sedative.
The attorney general's office says Brooks' complaint suggests that any three-drug combination would be unconstitutional, so the switch to midazolam was insignificant and he likely can't prove that a single drug method will work.
He is set to be executed Jan. 21 in the 1993 death of Deann Campbell.
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