Breaking News: Court rules that the death-row inmates have failed to establish their claim

[Surya Gayatri]

Breaking News:

The opinion in Glossip v. Gross is here. The Court rules that the death-row inmates have failed to establish a likelihood of success on the merits on their claim that the use of midazolam violates the Eighth Amendment.


5-4 with Sotomayor delivering dissent

http://www.scotusblog.com/

[randome]

1. For someone like me who has no idea what you're talking about..what, exactly, are you talking about?

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[Surya Gayatri]

2. Glossip v. Gross

Glossip v. Gross
Docket No. Op. Below Argument Opinion Vote Author Term
14-7955 10th Cir. Apr 29, 2015
Tr.Aud. Jun 29, 2015 5-4 Alito OT 2014

Issue: (1) Whether it is constitutionally permissible for a state to carry out an execution using a three-drug protocol where (a) there is a well-established scientific consensus that the first drug has no pain relieving properties and cannot reliably produce deep, coma-like unconsciousness, and (b) it is undisputed that there is a substantial, constitutionally unacceptable risk of pain and suffering from the administration of the second and third drugs when a prisoner is conscious; (2) whether the plurality stay standard of Baze v. Rees applies when states are not using a protocol substantially similar to the one that this Court considered in Baze; and (3) whether a prisoner must establish the availability of an alternative drug formula even if the state’s lethal-injection protocol, as properly administered, will violate the Eighth Amendment.

See here also:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026919995

• Lethal injections. The death penalty also is never far from the high court's docket. After a steady diet of cases and emergency appeals on issues such as claimed intellectual disabilities and the actions of defense lawyers and prosecutors, the court now must rule on a relatively new method of execution.

Unlike stronger barbiturates that are in short supply, the drug has failed in some cases to block pain and suffering during the lethal injection process.

[Surya Gayatri]

3. See here also:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026919995

• Lethal injections. The death penalty also is never far from the high court's docket. After a steady diet of cases and emergency appeals on issues such as claimed intellectual disabilities and the actions of defense lawyers and prosecutors, the court now must rule on a relatively new method of execution.

Unlike stronger barbiturates that are in short supply, the drug has failed in some cases to block pain and suffering during the lethal injection process.