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A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned a lower court's finding that Tennessee's lethal injection procedure is unconstitutional.

It was the first execution in Virginia under a new protocol that makes more of the lethal injection procedure secret.

It was the third time this year that a lethal injection procedure has gone wrong, following problems in Ohio and Oklahoma.

This week, Gov. Bob Riley, a Republican, said Alabama could move forward with Mr. Siebert's execution because the state had made changes to its lethal injection procedure.

The judge, Fernando J. Gaitan Jr. of Federal District Court, said the state's lethal injection procedure subjects condemned inmates to an unnecessary risk of "unconstitutional pain and suffering".

Oklahoma adopted its current lethal injection procedure last year after the botched execution of Clayton Lockett, who grimaced and kicked during a procedure that was widely criticized.

But broadly speaking, lethal injection procedures have already gone very, very wrong in three distinct ways.

She concluded that the legislature had not given the corrections department too much power to determine the lethal injection procedures.

An appeals court in New Jersey halted executions there in 2004 pending an explanation from corrections officials of an aspect of that state's lethal injection procedures.

"After weeks of Oklahoma refusing to disclose basic information about the drugs for tonight's lethal injection procedures, tonight Clayton Lockett was tortured to death," she said.

NASHVILLE, Sept. 19 — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked next week's scheduled execution of a prisoner in Tennessee, ruling that newly revised lethal injection procedures were unconstitutional.