Anti-death penalty activists said in a lawsuit the roadblocks impeded their free speech rights.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.CHICAGO -- Indiana State Police agreed Friday to stop blocking roads to a prison where federal executions resumed last month and are set to continue, backing down after anti-death penalty activists said in a lawsuit the roadblocks impeded their free speech rights.
During the executions last month, the obstructed roads forced demonstrators to gather nearly 2 miles from the prison, which the lawsuit argued prevented them from mounting credible protests. Friday’s filing says the resolution of the dispute is not an admission that state police, the only named defendant, accepted the lawsuit allegations.
“He just wants to be able to say he has executed more people than any president in well over half a century” during the run-up to the November election, said Bonowitz. The first of the executions on July 14 was of former white supremacist Daniel Lewis Lee. Two others, Wesley Purkey and Dustin Honken, were executed later the same week.
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