Denying five death row inmates’ bid for a stay of execution, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently ruled that Texas’ current form of execution by lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The five condemned Texas prisoners are the latest to challenge the lethal injection form of execution in the United States. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Glossip v. Gross that the three-drug cocktail Oklahoma uses to execute prisoners did not violate their Eighth Amendment rights.
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