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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer also used our studies as part of his research for Baze v. Rees in 2008, which upheld an earlier ruling in Kentucky that the state's approach to administering lethal injections does not violate the «cruel and unusual punishments» ban promised in the Eighth Amendment.
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Then, of course, there is also the distinction between an action done with the purpose of killing someone, like a lethal injection, and a decision to let nature take its course without using the extraordinary means of modern medicine that are available to forestall the inevitable.
They do not accept the idea, so popular with those who would remove food and fluid, that taking away a helpless person's food and water is morally superior to giving him a lethal injection.
In doing so, FDA deferred to law enforcement in the use of substances for lethal injection, which is consistent with the agency's long - standing policy.
Regardless of whether Landrigan's legal team was simply using the drug shortage as stalling tactic, their legal maneuvering brings to the fore a contentious dispute over the science (or some would say lack thereof) behind lethal injection executions in the U.S.. For more than two decades, it has been argued that the FDA should be required to certify the safety and effectiveness of drugs used to carry out executions (as it does for drugs used to euthanize animals).
Whatever you think of capital punishment, lethal injection in the US today doesn't offer the certainty of a swift end, because of a horrifying...
Now Clyde is rigging up the lethal injection machine to insure that his wife and daughter's murderer doesn't enjoy what's guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment, paralyzing the other killer before cutting him up in a couple dozen pieces, and patiently waiting for the cops to come pick him up.
Lorin «Tom» LaCrosse, who remains on the job while appealing a one - day suspension, said in a signed statement that Murray has «slung (animals) against the wall» when they did not die promptly after being given lethal injections.
The central problem of animal sheltering today is that even the best and most progressive shelters still do harm to animals, by employing lethal injection outside the bounds of true euthanasia as an expedient to resolve certain problematic situations.
Euthanasia is always done humanely with a lethal injection.
Even the American Veterinary Medical Association doesn't agree, citing lethal injection, done properly, as the preferred method of euthanasia.
The government won't even do the cats the kindness of giving them lethal injections when they become sick.
«I don't think anyone would argue that managing those cats through impoundment, followed by lethal injection, is a good use of tax dollars,» Wolf, the Vox Felina blogger, said.
The city council agreed with Johnson that switching to lethal injection is «the right thing to do».
Sadly, that plight ended today with one dose of lethal injection on a dog who did absolutely nothing wrong.
The county will continue to use CO gas chambers for these animals, but Gaston County Commissioner Allan Fraley has said if he doesn't see an increase in the numbers of animals euthanized by lethal injection, he will ask the commission to prohibit use of the CO gas chamber altogether.
«Review of lethal injection complete; A panel says the state can do better and will submit suggestions to Gov. Crist this week»: This article appears today in The St. Petersburg Times.
Eight months ago in this post, I urged Congress to consider whether and how it could do something to address the lethal injection mess unfolding in state and federal courts.
'' A Question Doug Berman Has Asked Before from StandDown Texas Project Is it finally time for Congress to do something about lethal injection problems, at his Sentencing Law Policy blog.
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Though I am doing this off the top of my head, here is a list of states in which there now seems to de facto moratoriums resulting from all the lethal injection litigation:
All of these developments further reinforces my belief, first set out in this pre-Hill post, that Congress should try to do something to clean up the lethal injection litigation mess.
As detailed in press reports here and here, a «federal judge in Missouri on Tuesday rejected that state's lethal injection procedure for the third time, saying it was inadequate to ensure that condemned inmates did not suffer unnecessary pain during executions.»