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Supreme Court Upholds Lethal Injection

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Kentucky's lethal injection procedures for carrying out capital punishment.

In a 7-2 decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court held that Kentucky?s lethal injection protocol -- involving the administration of three drugs -- does not violate Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment. The challenge was brought by a number of convicted murderers sentenced to death in Kentucky, who claimed that there was a significant risk that the lethal injection procedures would not be properly followed. According to the Associated Press, "[t]he argument against the three-drug protocol is that if the initial anesthetic does not take hold, the other two drugs can cause excruciating pain." Lethal injection is utilized as a method of capital punishment in 36 states.

Full post as published by FindLaw's Common Law on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).

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