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Lethal Injection - Page 2

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling has upheld the use of a drug for lethal injections in executions.

Three death row inmates brought the challenge arguing that the drug midazolam violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

"The prisoners failed to identify a known and available alternative method of execution that entails a lesser risk of pain, a requirement of all Eighth Amendment method-of-execution claims," Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority. Ref. CNN

Injection Lethal

Exactly, I always saw the injection as the most humane way and because they could not find another way then injection it will have to be. Perhaps shooting is another way. Hanging is definitely the worst.

Lethal Injection History & Civil Business Politics

I think that lethal injection is too kind for some of these people especially the suffering they caused their victims. I would want them to suffer a bit to help deter others from doing the same things.

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I don't think any method of capital ;punishment is going to deter would-be criminals, because criminals are criminals. They don't think rationally. They don't break the law because they want to be sent to prison, the break the law because the majority of them don't think they will get caught.

Injection Lethal

Using the court was just a means to delay their death. They could not find a more humane way to die and thus lost their case. For me the most cruel was the electric chair the most humane is lethal injection, they just need to come up with a better mixture.