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Last Updated on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 11:26 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 8 January 2008 10:32
As SCOTUS takes up the Kentucky case, AGs from across the country voice their support for the method. Time takes up the issue as well here.
AUSTIN — Executing inmates by injection has gained “widespread national acceptance” and does not inflict cruel and unusual punishment even if the process is not pain-free, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott told the U.S. Supreme Court in a 32-page brief submitted before Monday’s hearing.
Abbott was joined by attorneys general in 19 other states where capital punishment is carried out using the three-drug compound that is being challenged in a Kentucky case. Texas and other states that use lethal injection follow procedures similar to the one before the high court.