The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids the use of cruel and unusual punishment.
For that reason, two Kentucky death row inmates had challenged that state's three-drug lethal injection protocol, which some medical experts believe could cause excruciating pain if not administered properly. In fact, the lethal injection formula used by the states and federal government does not meet the minimum standards for veterinary euthanasia!
The case worked its way to the Supreme Court, and yesterday the Supremes essentially ruled in favor of excruciating pain.
[Read the Court's sadistic decision.]
The U.S. is the only Western democracy that still executes people. Couldn't we at least do it in a more humane way?
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