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07
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by Buck • 8:59 pm
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Their stand on torture should have been a giveaway.
Justices Divided Over Lethal Injections
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared divided Monday over whether the drugs commonly injected to execute prisoners risk causing excruciating pain in violation of the Constitution.
Several justices indicated a willingness to preserve the three-drug cocktail that is authorized by three dozen states that allow executions. Such a decision would allow lethal injections, on hold since late September, to resume quickly.
[...]Recent executions in Florida and Ohio took much longer than usual, with strong indications that the prisoners suffered severe pain in the process. Workers had trouble inserting the IV lines that are used to deliver the drugs.
Scalia, Roberts and Alito have no problem lavishing last-minute pain onto prisoners. Big surprise! Republicans are the pro-torture party, after all. An even bigger surprise… the Bush administration agrees!
(Please feel free to close your mouths now)
