Sentences with phrase «lethal injection protocols»

The Supreme Court's Hill decision on procedures for challenging lethal injection protocols in federal court (basics here, commentary here and here and here) just marks the start of another chapter in the saga of constitutional challenges to execution methods.

In the article, which is available here, I argue that Congress and state legislatures, and not individual federal district judges around the country, should be actively working on improving lethal injection protocols.

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Court orders demanding death row inmates to provide «specific, detailed and concrete alternatives» to a state's lethal injection protocol compel those inmates to produce evidence that is impossible to obtain without forcing physicians and other clinicians to violate their medical ethics, according to Harvard bioethicists and legal experts.

Executions in California technically resumed in November, when the state introduced a new lethal injection protocol — but the process is notoriously slow.

Hill, which I think of as the execution method case, produced an unanimous ruling in favor of a death row defendant's right to challenge a lethal injection protocol through a 1983 civil rights claim.

As noted in this post, Oklahoma's highest criminal court earlier this week gave its blessing to the standard lethal injection protocol.

Not exact matches

Consider the budget - driven approach taken by two local Kentucky lawyers, Public Defender David Barron and state attorney, Jeff Middendorf, who played key roles in Supreme Court case Baze v. Rees, that addresses whether Kentucky's lethal injection drug protocol amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.