SCOTUS: Controversial Drug Can Be Used In Executions
It’s legal for the lethal injection drug midazolam to be used in executions, ruled the high court.
In a 5-4 opinion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the court that Oklahoma prisoners failed in their challenge because they didn’t provide evidence of an alternative method of execution and because the Supreme Court found no clear error in the trial court’s ruling that midazolam “is highly likely to render a person unable to feel pain during an execution.”
Alito wrote that “some risk of pain is inherent in every execution,” but added that doesn’t mean the methods are unconstitutional. “After all, while most humans wish to die a painless death, many do not have that good fortune.”
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tracey marie June 29th, 2015 at 12:11
how disgusting
Dwendt44 June 30th, 2015 at 01:00
Importing ‘death penalty’ drugs are illegal. So why don’t they use opiates; morphine, heroin, etc. are all deadly in high doses, and most states have storage rooms full of them. When a criminal case is closed or dismissed, the drugs are not returned to the criminal. So use them instead.
I sit on the fence as regards to the death penalty itself. For some offenses I think the death penalty is appropriate. Political assassination, purposely killing a LEO, mass murder and serial killers.