US to decide on lethal injection
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The US Supreme Court is to hear a challenge to lethal injections that has halted executions for months.
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The death penalty is under what may be an unprecedented review in the United States, mostly involving questions about lethal injection, by far the most common method of execution.
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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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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take a hard look at the method of lethal injection most states use to put inmates to death in a case that could further slow the pace of executions.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the execution of a Texas convict scheduled to be put to death for the 1998 killing of his parents, two days after the court said it will consider whether lethal injection violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Several Supreme Court justices questioned yesterday whether a challenge to Kentucky's lethal-injection process brought by two death row inmates presents enough evidence to decide whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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For Scott Peterson, ultimately there may be little difference between a death sentence and life in prison. In California, the chances are greater that a condemned inmate will die in prison than be executed by lethal injection.
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A botulinum preparation a Florida doctor injected in himself and three others for cosmetic purposes two years ago was up to 40 times more lethal than what it takes to kill a person, according to a report published on Tuesday.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday by lethal injection, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court said it will decide whether that method violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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On issues such as the juvenile death penalty, the court considers whether it should weigh international opinion.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today on whether lethal injection causes excruciating pain for death row inmates and violates the Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishment." The three dozen states that perform lethal injections use the three-drug mixture at issue in this case.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida's incoming governor said on Friday he would suspend executions after a medical examiner found that it took a condemned killer 34 minutes to die from a lethal injection because the needles were inserted improperly.
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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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This file photo provided by the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice showing Texas death row inmate Frances Newton who is set for execution by lethal injection in Huntsville on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - A federal judge has declared Tennessee's procedure to execute inmates by lethal injection puts them at risk of a painful death, and canceled next week's scheduled execution of a 52-year-old inmate.
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At Christopher Newton's execution by lethal injection last month, it took 90 minutes and at least 10 stabs of the needle for the execution team to find a vein. The procedure was so drawn out the staff paused to allow Newton a bathroom break.