Justices will clarify how death-row prisoners can contest a state’s method of execution
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 22, 2022
Share The Supreme Court doesn’t care all that much for method-of-execution challenges. It particularly disfavors Eighth Amendment litigation attacking familiar lethal injection protocols as “cruel and unusual” punishment. Nance eventually challenged Georgia’s lethal injection protocol, which uses a single drug (pentobarbital).
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