For the past few days, judges have debated a novel—although ultimately unsuccessful —argument against lethal injection posed by a Georgia death row inmate who asked to be put before a firing squad instead.
The appeal focused on a medicine given for nerve pain that defense counsel argued could make a person resistant to being rendered unconscious by the drug used for executions, thus violating the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
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