Sentences with phrase «method of lethal injection»

The U.S. Supreme Court had decided at around 10 am that morning to accept a case from Kentucky (Baze v Rees) in order to rule on the constitutionality of the method of lethal injection as a means of carrying out executions.

Interestingly, this new New York Times article reports that «medical experts say the current method of lethal injection could easily be changed to make suffering less likely.»

Not exact matches

Jim Craig, an attorney who is suing the state against lethal injection use, told the Associated Press the introduction of new execution methods would be challenged in court.

They will be put to death by lethal injection, the customary method of euthanasia at the county's shelter.

Under the proposed legislation lethal injection using sodium pentobarbital or a derivative, a procedure known as EBI, would be the only allowed method of euthanasia for animals in North Carolina's public shelters.

They each spoke from experience about the suffering and danger caused by use of the gas chambers and the much safer, humane method of euthanasia, lethal injection.

Last year Perdue wrote a letter to the state Department of Agriculture, urging the adoption of rules requiring use of lethal injection as the only method of euthanasia in animal shelters.

The AVMA has stated humane euthanasia by lethal injection is the preferred method of killling shelter animals.

As for cost, a study conducted by the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society in September 2000 concluded that to euthanize 10,000 animals per year, cost of gassing averages $ 13,230 (excluding the cost of intravenous injection as a back - up method) while lethal injection averages $ 12,700.

Even the American Veterinary Medical Association doesn't agree, citing lethal injection, done properly, as the preferred method of euthanasia.

The National Animal Control Association (NACA) issued the following policy statement in September, 2010: «NACA considers lethal injection of sodium pentobarbital, administered by competent, trained personnel, to be the only method of choice utilized for humane euthanasia of animal shelter dogs and cats.»

Commissioners authorized a method of painless lethal injection during budget hearings earlier this year.

The issue of concern to those organizations was to advance lethal injection as a more humane method of killing than the decompression chambers still widely used.

Many states now mandate lethal injection as the only method of euthanasia allowed.

Texas law allows only two methods of killing shelter animals: (1) humane euthanasia by lethal injection of sodium pentobarbital administered by a trained employee out of the sight and away from other animals in a quiet area.

Instead, the commission unanimously approved a motion by Commissioner Fred McClure that recognizes lethal injection as the preferred method of euthanasia that should be used whenever possible.

For the next several decades, community animal control services would be assumed by humane groups, with the emphasis on improving shelter conditions and developing more «humane» methods of euthanasia, such as electric shock, gas and decompression chambers, and finally, lethal injection.

The AVMA's new direction is more in line with the National Animal Control Association (NACA) which in September 2010, issued the following policy statement: «NACA considers lethal injection of sodium pentobarbital, administered by competent, trained personnel, to be the only method of choice utilized for humane euthanasia of animal shelter dogs and cats.»

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.

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.

D.C. Circuit allows federal death row inmate to intervene in lawsuit challenging the federal government's method of carrying out lethal injections and its failure to disclose its execution procedures: You can access today's ruling of a unanimous three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

Well, the Texas — the original reason was because during earlier in the day, around 10:00 a.m., the US Supreme Court decided to take a case out of Kentucky that would have determined the constitutionality of lethal injection as an execution method, the three - drug cocktail used in executions in Kentucky and here in the US.