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Lethal injection allowed http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/lethal-injection-allowed/ Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 10:13 am | Lyle Denniston | Comments Off | In a widely splintered decision, the Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for death-row executions to resume across the country, concluding that the most common method of lethal injection does not violate the Constitution. The final vote was 7-2 in Baze v. Rees (07-5439), although there was no opinion that spoke for five or more Justices. The Court?s plurality adopted as a standard for assessing the validity of an execution method whether it poses a ?substantial risk of serious harm.? It rejected the death row inmate?s proposal that the standard be ?unnecessary risk.? While the opinion appeared to leave open a chance that some further challenges could be made to the use of lethal drugs under a specific procedure in another state, it rejected a challenge to the method as used in Kentucky which is fairly close to the protocol used in 36 states and by the federal government...continue to full post

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