Appellate Law

SCOTUS unlikely to overturn 3-drug cocktail for executions

By william

The Supreme Court gave a skeptical hearing today to lawyers who are challenging the use of lethal injections to carry out executions in the United States.Death penalty foes had hoped the high court was about to rein in the most commonly used method of execution, but there were few signs of that during today's oral argument.Instead, in comments and questions, most of the justices said they were not convinced that the commonly used, three-chemical compound causes inmates to die a painful death. They also said they were not convinced a better method was available.

Full post as published by South Carolina Appellate Law Blog on January 07, 2008 (boomark / email).