Justices will clarify how death-row prisoners can contest a state’s method of execution
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 22, 2022
It particularly disfavors Eighth Amendment litigation attacking familiar lethal injection protocols as “cruel and unusual” punishment. In the past 20 years, the court has announced substantive constitutional law, pleading requirements, and timeliness rules that make it harder to win such arguments.
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