[poll id=”31″]BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho prisons officials are making their final preparations for the execution of death row inmate Richard Albert Leavitt, who is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Tuesday morning.   

If the execution proceeds, it will be the first time that Idaho media witnesses are allowed to watch as the condemned enters the death chamber, is strapped down and inserted with IVs. The state made the change after The Associated Press and 16 other news organizations sued and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Idaho’s former policy preventing witnesses from viewing the first half of executions violated the First Amendment.

Leavitt was sentenced to death in 1985 for the stabbing murder of 31-year-old Danette Elg in Blackfoot.