Court to consider lethal injection

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in a case that could affect the way inmates are executed around the country.

The high court will hear a challenge from two inmates on death row in Kentucky — Ralph Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr. — who sued Kentucky in 2004, claiming lethal injection amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

Baze has been scheduled for execution Tuesday night, but the Kentucky Supreme Court halted the proceedings earlier this month.

The U.S. Supreme Court has previously made it easier for death row inmates to contest the lethal injections used across the country for executions.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_lethal_injection

[Orrex]

1. Good luck with that one!

If Alito had his way, the condemned would be slowly fed into a wood chipper while Ashcroft's rendition of "Let the Eagle Soar" was piped in over loudspeakers.

Capital punishment is murder, but I doubt that Bush's court will see it that way.

[sharp_stick]

2. The court would never allow

the Ashcroft rendition of "Let the Eagle Soar", very obviously a violation under cruel and unusual punishment. The wood-chipper however, yeah that they'd probably go for. I bet shrubbies supporters would want it on TV too, just so long as there was no swearing involved to harm the poor children. Perhaps a nice gag on the guy being fed into the chipper?

[flashl]

3. Business must be slow for the Supremes

I read an article where the Supremes lamented that since the internet lower courts are in synch and do not require advise from above.

Well, if they just mandate that everybody wear the "Purple Moon Suit" in the death chambers (proposed to hide doctors ids) everything will be all right.

[Orsino]

4. 5-4 for death. Just a guess. n/t

[HelloDubya]

5. Isn't that called "heroin"?

[Judi Lynn]

6. Challenge may halt Florida's scheduled lethal injections

Challenge may halt Florida's scheduled lethal injections
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether lethal injection is a constitutional method of execution.
Posted on Wed, Sep. 26, 2007

BY MARY ELLEN KLAS
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Lethal injection challenge could halt Florida executions

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday to hear a case that challenges the constitutionality of death by lethal injection, putting Florida's on-again, off-again death penalty back in limbo and potentially postponing executions around the nation.

The high court said it will consider a challenge from two inmates on Kentucky's death row, Ralph Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr., who claim that the state's lethal-injection procedure violates their constitutional rights.

This is the first time the high court has agreed to consider whether the mix of drugs used in Kentucky, Florida and 35 other states violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Death penalty opponents argue that the administration of the fatal chemicals often causes pain because the anesthesia fails to render the condemned person unconscious.

More:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/250523.html

[fedupfisherman]

7. Hope they rule for the death penalty

Justice needs to be served

[Tansy_Gold]

8. "Court to consider lethal injection"

Am I the only one who thinks this is an unintentionally funny headline? I mean, who are they going to consider lethally injecting? Themselves?


Tansy Gold, opponent of capital punishment, no matter what the crime, no matter what