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Justice Stevens on Lethal Injection

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Monica Mercer of the Chattanooga Free Press Times reports, "Stevens addresses lethal injections."Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens drew a round of applause Friday night in Chattanooga when he suggested that the recently-euthanized Kentucky Derby horse Eight Bells had probably experienced a more humane death than those who die on death row. ?I had checked the procedure they used to kill the horse,? Justice Stevens said, expressing surprise to learn it is against the law in Kentucky to kill animals using one of the drugs in a three-drug lethal injection cocktail that many believe is cruel to humans. Yet just three weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that Kentucky?s use of that cocktail on death row did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).