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Supreme Court Allows Lethal Injection for Execution
April 16, 2008 Supreme Court Allows Lethal Injection for Execution By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NY Times WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the most common method of lethal injection executions, likely clearing the way to resume executions...

Supreme Court OK's lethal injections
As expected, today in a 7-2 decision the Supreme Court found the lethal injection to be constitutional. Capital Defense Weekly has more details about the decision. You can read the full text of the opinion online...

Texas holds first execution since Supreme Court ruling on lethal injection
[JURIST] Convicted rapist and murderer Karl Eugene Chamberlain [State of Texas profile] was executed by lethal injection at a Texas prison Wednesday evening. His death marked the state's first execution since the US Supreme Court's April ruling in Baze v...

Georgia conducts first execution since US Supreme Court death penalty ruling
[JURIST] Georgia Tuesday evening carried out the first execution in the United States since the US Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection protocol [JURIST report] and ended a de facto national moratorium on the death penalty...

"State Asks Supreme Court to Permit Execution; Defense Objects to Lethal Drug Protocol"
"State Asks Supreme Court to Permit Execution; Defense Objects to Lethal Drug Protocol": Today in The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has an article that begins, "The U.S. Supreme Court will consider next month whether to allow Virginia to set an execution date for a death row inmate who contends that the commonwealth's lethal injection procedures do not meet the standards that the court recently found constitutional...

"Supreme Court Allows Lethal Injection for Execution"
"Supreme Court Allows Lethal Injection for Execution": Linda Greenhouse will have this article Thursday in The New York Times.

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