Court rejects lethal injection challenge

WASHINGTON â?? The Supreme Court by a 7-2 vote Wednesday rejected a challenge to the lethal injection method of executions. The decision in a Kentucky case is likely to end the nationwide moratorium on the death penalty that began last fall when the justices agreed to take up the claim.
The splintered rationale among the justices in the majority, however, could spur lawsuits in particular states over how their executions are carried out.

The two condemned prisoners who brought the case had said a widely used three-drug lethal injection method constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.

Most of the 36 states that permit capital punishment use the same mix: sodium thiopental (an anesthetic), pancuronium bromide (a paralyzing agent) and potassium chloride (which stops the heart). The prisoners said the second drug can mask signs of distress and create a risk that inmates suffer excruciating pain before death occurs.

Chief Justice John Roberts, writing the leading opinion for the court, said the inmates failed to show that the method poses an unconstitutional risk of pain,

Dissenting were Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter. They said: "Kentucky's protocol lacks basic safeguards used by other states to confirm that an inmate is unconscious before injection of the second and third drugs."
Court rejects lethal injection challenge - USATODAY.com

The poor things!:mad: More time in wasted in the court system.

Have a good one!:s4:

Honestly, why don't they just shoot them full of morphine until dead? Nobody should have anything to complain about then!

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Honestly, why don't they just shoot them full of morphine until dead? Nobody should have anything to complain about then!

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Or put them to sleep and then shoot them in the head. No pain, no nothing. Just a mess for the janitor.



side note: i do not agree with capital punishment.

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Honestly, why don't they just shoot them full of morphine until dead? Nobody should have anything to complain about then!

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LOL....that's an illegal addictive drug. Wouldn't want to send them to hell addicted to a drug now would we?

I say bring back the hangman's noose! Let the s.o.b. dangle and think about what he/she did for a bit. Besides that it would probably be more cost efficient.:thumbsup:

Have a good one!:s4:

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LOL....that's an illegal addictive drug.

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Actually it's a schedule 2 narcotic, which means it's all good via doctor's authorization. Hmmmmm, do no harm and whatnot though. Alright, we introduce an amendment to allow use of scedule 2's for lethal injection.



As for the death penalty itself...... eh, I can't say I firmly stand in support of one side or another. If it were up to me I think I'd just snuff the real pieces of shit; the John Wayne Gacies and Ted Bundy's and Mitt Romney's such. :D

I dont think they gave there victims any mercy so what would it matter how they die cruel or not

I'm very pro death penalty. An eye for an eye I say (Of course there are exceptions, like honest to god accidents). I believe that the family of the victim(s) should decide the fate of the convicted.

I'm so very sick and tired of seeing people who are sentenced to death waiting around for 30 freakin' years.

I also believe that more crimes should be allowed on the list of crimes the death penalty is applied to. Like rape for example.

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I'm very pro death penalty. An eye for an eye I say (Of course there are exceptions, like honest to god accidents). I believe that the family of the victim(s) should decide the fate of the convicted.

I'm so very sick and tired of seeing people who are sentenced to death waiting around for 30 freakin' years.

I also believe that more crimes should be allowed on the list of crimes the death penalty is applied to. Like rape for example.

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Well put Rebgirl i agree with you 100%.:thumbsup:

Just give them a head shot i'm sure that costs less money.

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Just give them a head shot i'm sure that costs less money.

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Yes that's the way to go Reefer Rogue.:)