Supreme Court Decision: Glossip v. Gross – Lethal Injection Doesn’t Violate the Constitution
Yesterday, in Glossip v. Gross, the Supreme Court decided, in a 5-4 decision, that the use of midazolam in the process of executing prisoners does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Justice Kennedy was the swing vote, siding with court’s more conservative majority. Midazolam is supposed to render a person insensate […]