Justices divided over lethal injections
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The Supreme Court appeared divided Monday over whether the drugs commonly injected to execute prisoners risk causing excruciating pain in violation of the Constitution.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Death penalty critics on Thursday asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt lethal injections after a convicted killer took 34 minutes to die from the procedure and witnesses said he appeared to suffer.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a death penalty case being watched around the world, to decide whether the lethal injections used to execute criminals cause unacceptable pain.
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The nation's busiest death penalty state executed another inmate Tuesday night, undeterred by a Supreme Court review of whether the lethal injection method most states use is cruel and unusual.
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US Supreme Court agrees to consider challenges to lethal injection filed by two death row inmates.
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By Erin Stewart Deseret Morning News  Although execution by lethal injection is under intense scrutiny, five convicted murderers on Utah's death row await that capital penalty.
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A death row inmate convicted of murdering seven people was spared a lethal injection when federal courts declined to overrule a stay, frustrating the state&#039;s plan for back-to-back executions.
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PHILADELPHIA - October 13 - With the Supreme Court now poised to decide if the death penalty for minors constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, will Pennsylvania and Delaware finally take a look at their own laws?
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The US Supreme Court heard arguments on the legality of the death penalty for criminals under age 18 in a case that has received international attention.
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the Christopher Simmons case and consider a question that could affect 73 death-row inmates across the nation who committed their crimes before age 18: whether executing such inmates amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment," which is forbidden by the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
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It's not official, but a "creeping  moratorium" on the death penalty in the United States is taking  hold as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a challenge to the  method of lethal injection.
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The Supreme Court struggled today over whether the time has come to end the death penalty for young murderers. Two years ago, the court in a 6-3 decision struck down capital
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A bid to declare capital punishment for juveniles unconstitutional was met with doubts from one of two Supreme Court justices likely to be pivotal in its outcome.
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The Supreme Court yesterday declined to consider whether dying patients have a right to be treated with experimental drugs not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to assess the morality and propriety of states' executing murderers who killed at age 16 or 17 - the ultimate punishment carried out in few places outside the United States.    The court has outlawed executions for those 15 and under when they committed their crimes...
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A convicted killer who argued that Florida's use of lethal injection amounted to cruel and unusual punishment was put to death Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly denied him another stay.
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On Monday, the court hears arguments on whether Kentucky's lethal injection is too painful.