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Article: LETHAL INJECTION UNDER REVIEW SUPREME COURT BEGINS HEARING KY. CASE
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- January 7, 2008
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WASHINGTON - A quarter-century has elapsed since the U.S.
experienced as long a pause in executions as the one the Supreme
Court has occasioned with its current examination of lethal
injections.
No one has been put to death since Sept. 25, and the earliest
that executions are likely to resume is in the summer. Forty-two
people were executed in 2007, the lowest total in 13 years. Last
month, New Jersey became the first state in four decades to abolish
the death penalty.
But when the justices return from their holiday break and hear
arguments today in a lethal injection case from Kentucky, their
questions are unlikely to focus on whether capital punishment or
even the method of lethal ...