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| Supreme Court Must Decide If Lethal Injection Is Too Painful |
| By nbcnews.com- Tracy Connor |
| Published: 04/29/2015 |
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Exactly one year after a botched execution in Oklahoma, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments from a death-row prisoner's challenge to the state's lethal injection protocol in a case that could have repercussions across the country. At issue is the sedative midazolam and the question of whether it puts condemned inmates into a coma-like state that protects them from the kind of pain that would violate the Eighth Amendment restriction on cruel and unusual punishment. The lead plaintiff in the case is Richard Glossip, 51, who was one day away from getting the needle for the 1997 murder-for-hire of his boss when the high court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injections for the first time in seven years. Read More. |
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