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Article: Kentucky case puts lethal injection to test; Supreme Court will weigh constitutionality of execution method.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2008
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Byline: JENNIFER A. DLOUHY Times Union Washington bureau
WASHINGTON - The future of the death penalty will be in the hands of the Supreme Court justices on Monday when they hear arguments in a closely watched case that tests the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection.
The case, brought by two death row inmates in Kentucky who are challenging the three-drug cocktail used to kill prisoners, has already led Texas - the nation's volume leader in executions - and other states to halt executions until the Supreme Court decides the Kentucky case.
When Oklahoma first authorized lethal injection in 1977 - a year after the Supreme Court ruled ...