[Iran Press TV] The US Supreme Court has ruled that the use of a controversial execution drug is constitutional when administering the death penalty.
In a 5-4 decision, the highest federal court of the United States on Monday refused to limit states' use of the sedative midazolam that opponents say has the effect of being burned alive.
The activist court is reportedly quite knowledgeable regarding abortifacient pharmaceutical drugs and Obamacare as well. Experts on the living and the dead, so to speak.
The drug had played a part in three long and painful executions last year in Oklahoma, Ohio and Arizona.
"Petitioners have failed to establish a likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that the use of midazolam violates the Eighth Amendment," the justices wrote in the majority decision, delivered by Justice Samuel Alito.
The court's conservative majority said lethal injection remains the most humane method of execution. |