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| Oklahoma to resume lethal injections after court ruling |
| By ifreepress.com |
| Published: 07/01/2015 |
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Death row inmates and their attorneys argued the drug cocktail is experimental. In the majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., five justices said that they agreed with a lower court’s determination that prisoners in Oklahoma failed to prove that a large doze of midazolam “entails a substantial risk of severe pain”. Alito responded, saying “the dissent’s resort to this outlandish rhetoric reveals the weakness of its legal arguments”. In a dissenting opinion, liberal Justice Stephen Breyer said the court should consider whether the death penalty itself is constitutional. The Glossip case challenged the use of one drug in the lethal injection procedure in Oklahoma, but Florida is the only other state that uses virtually the same means to execute death row inmates. Read More. |
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