October 26, 2007
Challenging the Constitutionality of Lethal Injection
David R. Dow, professor of law at the University of Houston
In late September, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection — the required method of execution in all but one of the 38 states that permit the death penalty — constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. As a result of that pending case, a Texas appeals court has put executions in the state on hold until the Supreme Court makes its ruling, later
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