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Supreme Court Issues Fractious Opinion Upholding Kentucky's Lethal Injection Process

By Death Penalty Information Center

On April 16, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Kentucky's three-drug protocol for carrying out lethal injections does not amount to cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. The case, Baze v. Rees, had resulted in executions being put on hold around the country from the day after the Court agreed to review the issue. Thirty-five of the 36 states with the death penalty and the federal government use lethal injection as their primary method of execution. Seven Justices wrote opinions in the case, indicating that the Court is far from a consensus about how to resolve additional challenges that are likely to arise.

Full post as published by Death Penalty Information Center on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).