<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>(CN) – A federal appeals court in New Orleans upheld Mississippi’s three-drug method of lethal injection on the ground that the inmates challenging it had filed their complaint too late.
Death-row inmates Alan Walker, Paul Woodward, Earl Berry,<wm> and Ronald Davis, who are awaiting execution, have been using a cocktail method of lethal injection that involves three drugs given intravenously in conjunction. They have been on this regimen for some time. Because of the time it takes for the full effects of the combined poison, the federal appeals court said that any delay can result in loss of human life.
In a ruling issued Friday to the federal judges of the Second Circuit, the court ruled that their right to bring about an end to the practice was violated</wm> when inmates Walker, Berry, and Davis died while they are still waiting.
The three men claim they