WASHINGTON AP – The Supreme Court’s decision to review the constitutionality of lethal injection procedures has slowed the annual number of executions to the lowest level in a decade amid renewed concerns about whether it’s too cruel.
On Wednesday, the high court blocked Virginia’s plans to kill Christopher Scott Emmett, 36, hours before he was to die by lethal injection. Courts in Nevada and Texas this week also postponed executions scheduled before the end of 2007, making it one of the quietest years so far for executions since the mid-1990s.
