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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via the LTB: Deborah W. Denno (Fordham University School) has posted The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science (Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. 35, No. 701, 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: On April 16, 2008, for the first time in decades, the United States Supreme Court reviewed evidence concerning whether a state’s method of execution violated the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause. In Baze v. Rees, a 7-2 plurality ruling, the Court upheld the constitutionality of Kentucky’s method of executing inmates by lethal injection, determining that Kentucky’s administration of a three-drug combination used by most death penalty states did not pose a “substantial” or “objectively intolerable” risk of “serious harm” to inmates...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 16, 2008 (boomark / email).