US Supreme Court Lifts Ban on Death Penalty

The moratorium of death penalties is over after the U.S. Supreme Court voted to resume executions in the form of lethal injections. Ending the seven-month ban Virginia, Mississippi and Oklahoma said they would seek dates of execution for inmates destined to die via the death penalty. In a 7-2 vote the Court reversed the ban on executions which was being contested on grounds that its inhumane as opposed to unconstitutional.

The plaintiffs, two inmates on Kentucky’s Death Row argued that they should be killed in a less painful way, namely by being injected with one drug as opposed to the three-step process. The Chief Justice of the Court, John Roberts said the inmates “have not carried their burden of showing that the risk of pain from maladministration of a concededly humane lethal injection protocol, and the failure to adopt untried and untested alternatives, constitute cruel and unusual punishment.” As a result Roberts said in the future inmates will not be able to be heard from the court unless “the condemned prisoner establishes that the state’s lethal injection protocol creates a demonstrated risk of severe pain.”

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~ by streetknowledge on April 17, 2008.