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Guerrilla Warfare And The Constitution, Sonja R. West Jul 2015

Guerrilla Warfare And The Constitution, Sonja R. West

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Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court upheld, by a 5-4 vote, the states’ ability to execute death row inmates with a three-drug lethal injection cocktail that critics argue causes excruciating pain. The Court reasoned that states should be allowed to use the drug in question, despite its involvement in several botched executions, in part because states can no longer attain more effective alternatives. In the majority opinion, the justices spin an erroneous tale about “anti-death-penalty advocates” pressuring pharmaceutical companies into refusing to supply other, more humane drugs to the states for use in capital punishment. This alleged radical …


Comment, Time For A Legislative Change: Florida's Stagnant Standard Governing Mental Competency For Execution, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch Jan 2004

Comment, Time For A Legislative Change: Florida's Stagnant Standard Governing Mental Competency For Execution, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

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