Opinion ID: 1288633
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Heading: Entry Discussing Michael Lambert's Motion for Preliminary Injunction

Text: RICHARD L. YOUNG, United States District Judge. Michael Lambert (Lambert) is on Indiana's death row because of his 1990 murder of a Muncie police officer. Indiana law prescribes that executions shall be carried out by lethal injection. IND.CODE § 35-38-6-1(a). Lambert's execution is fset for June 15, 2007, only three days hence. He has joined Norman Timberlake, also on death row, in challenging the existing lethal injection protocol of the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC). David Leon Woods (Woods), recently executed pursuant to the challenged protocol, had also joined in the challenge, and the court is now presented with a sequel, perhaps sooner than the parties anticipated, to the motion for preliminary injunction of intervenor plaintiff Woods. As used herein, defendant or Superintendent refers to Indiana State Prison Superintendent Ed Buss. Through its Entry of June 8, 2007, the court notified the parties that in resolving Lambert's motion for preliminary injunction the court would consider, and the parties could do likewise, the evidence and argument presented in conjunction with the motion for preliminary injunction filed by Woods. This Entry constitutes the court's findings of fact and conclusions of law as to Lambert's motion. Fed.R.Civ.P. 52(a). For the reasons explained in this Entry, Lambert's motion for preliminary injunction must be denied.