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- Title
Cruel and Unusual? The Bifurcation of Eighth Amendment Inquiries After Baze v. Rees.
- Authors
Samburg, Mark B.
- Abstract
The article examines the bifurcation of the Eighth Amendment inquiries after the U.S. court case Baze versus Rees. It says that the case held that the Kentucky execution protocol, and particularly its adoption of pancuronium bromide as a paralytic agent in lethal injection, did not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. It notes that the U.S. Supreme Court, in validating the Kentucky three-drug execution method, substantially gave a new standard for telling whether an execution protocol is cruel and unusual.
- Subjects
KENTUCKY; UNITED States; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); UNITED States. Constitution. 8th Amendment; BAZE v. Rees (Supreme Court case); EXECUTIONS &; executioners; LETHAL injection (Execution)
- Publication
Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 2009, Vol 44, Issue 1, p213
- ISSN
0017-8039
- Publication type
Article