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| Justices unswayed by lethal injection foes |
| By Los Angeles Times |
| Published: 01/08/2008 |
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WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices reacted skeptically Monday to the claim that the lethal injections used to carry out executions in the United States were flawed in practice and amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. Death penalty critics had hoped that the court would declare unconstitutional the use of a three-drug compound that has been the standard means of execution since the early 1980s. They say the use of a paralyzing drug could mask the fact that the condemned man may suffer searing pain when given a heart-stopping drug. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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