FUCK THE POLICE
911 EVERY DAY
TO 63%!!!!
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080424060415tsop.nb/newsblaze/WORLDNEW/World-News.html
The number of executions in the United States in 2007 dropped to its lowest number since 1994, in part due to legal challenges that cause many states to halt executions temporarily.
There were 42 executions in 2007, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that studies and provides analysis on capital punishment.
The nation's highest court placed a de facto moratorium on the death penalty by halting any scheduled executions while it reviewed the lethal injection process used by 34 states. Other states also suspended executions, waiting to see what the Supreme Court would decide.
In January 2008, the court heard the case of Baze v. Rees, in which two Kentucky inmates argued the combination of drugs used to administer lethal injections violated a prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In an April 16 7-2 ruling, the court said this method of lethal injection does not violate the Constitution, clearing the way for executions to proceed.
"Simply because an execution method may result in pain, either by accident or as an inescapable consequence of death, does not establish the sort of 'objectively intolerable risk of harm' that qualifies as cruel and unusual," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts.
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080424060415tsop.nb/newsblaze/WORLDNEW/World-News.html
The number of executions in the United States in 2007 dropped to its lowest number since 1994, in part due to legal challenges that cause many states to halt executions temporarily.
There were 42 executions in 2007, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that studies and provides analysis on capital punishment.
The nation's highest court placed a de facto moratorium on the death penalty by halting any scheduled executions while it reviewed the lethal injection process used by 34 states. Other states also suspended executions, waiting to see what the Supreme Court would decide.
In January 2008, the court heard the case of Baze v. Rees, in which two Kentucky inmates argued the combination of drugs used to administer lethal injections violated a prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In an April 16 7-2 ruling, the court said this method of lethal injection does not violate the Constitution, clearing the way for executions to proceed.
"Simply because an execution method may result in pain, either by accident or as an inescapable consequence of death, does not establish the sort of 'objectively intolerable risk of harm' that qualifies as cruel and unusual," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts.
