US Supreme Court rejects lethal injection challenge
"A challenge to the most common form of lethal injection used in executions in the United States was rejected by the Supreme Court yesterday.
The death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility
States began using the three-drug
lethal injection method in 1978
In a 7-2 vote, it threw out a claim by two inmates in Kentucky that a three-drug cocktail currently used amounted to unconstitutional "cruel and unusual punishment".
The challenge had placed a moratorium on executions in America from last September. But within two hours of the ruling, Timothy Kaine, the governor of Virginia, lifted the state's suspension".
Killing people with a lethal injection seems to me to be defacto "cruel and unusual punishment".
ReplyDeleteIs there any humane way to kill somebody?
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