Sentences with phrase «of lethal injection»

You can predict other common compounds like potassium chloride, used in very large doses as part of a lethal injection.

Sadly, that plight ended today with one dose of lethal injection on a dog who did absolutely nothing wrong.

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.

In 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court (pdf) upheld a lower court ruling that the state of Kentucky's three - drug method of lethal injection did not constitute «cruel and unusual punishment,» as defined by the Eighth Amendment.

The expert ended up prompting a back - and - forth between Supreme Court justices, who narrowly upheld use of a lethal injection drug.

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.

Meanwhile, the AP reports that in Florida, state Rep. Brad Drake introduced a bill this week that would end the use of lethal injections in Florida executions, and instead require those on death row to choose between electrocution or a firing squad.

Features news, commentary and analysis of the issue of lethal injection in the United States, although there is an emphasis on Florida.

Certainly proper use of lethal injection requires training.

Why is sodium thiopental used as part of a lethal injection execution?

By contrast, medical ethicists remain divided about active euthanasia, in which a physician ends a patient's life intentionally and directly: for example, by means of a lethal injection.

When dealing with a lot of different people in many different places it takes good communcations skills, diplomacy and organization to make sure the outcome for the dog involved is a forever home with a loving person or family instead of a lethal injection.

Now I train dogs not so much for the money but because a trained dog with an informed owner has less chance of ending up at the end of a lethal injection needle for being vicious.

A 2009 study of North Carolina shelters by the American Humane Association confirmed use of lethal injection costs less per animal than use of a CO gas chamber.

Drake said that a recent discussion he had with a constituent at a Waffle House caused him to realize that the use of lethal injection allowed killers to «get off easy.»

Justice John Paul Stevens, who turns 88 next Sunday, writes in a concurrence that the Court's discussion of lethal injection has led him to conclude that «The time for a dispassionate, impartial comparison of the enormous costs that death penalty litigation imposes on society with the benefits that it produces has surely arrived.»

'' Survey of Lethal Injection Litigation from StandDown Texas Project Doug Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy has a survey of lethal injection litigation here.

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.»

has for many years employed a data - driven strategy to identify and save classes of shelter animals with high probabilities of losing their lives because of lethal injection.

Most recently, Arizona inmate Jeffrey Landrigan was executed Tuesday night only after a delay caused by a legal battle over the source and quality of the sodium thiopental used as part of the lethal injection.

In one case, a state court halted an execution scheduled for Thursday night, while a state judge separately barred the use of a lethal injection drug, potentially blocking all of the planned executions.

Regardless of your view on the death penalty, there's scant evidence to back the idea that the use of lethal injection is humane, says Anna Nowogrodzki

A major obstacle to change is that alternative methods of lethal injection, though they might be easier on inmates, would almost certainly be harder on witnesses and executioners.

Court of Criminal Appeals judges were standing by on September 25 to work the evening on which Michael Richard was executed because they expected his lawyers to file an emergency appeal based on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision earlier in the day to consider a Kentucky case challenging the constitutionality of lethal injection.

The stay of execution will stand until February 2008 when the US Supreme Court will decide if the use of a lethal injection is a «cruel or inhumane» punishment.