lethal injection

Supreme Court Concludes Term With Death Penalty Ruling, Looks Ahead

1:52pm June 30, 2015

by Nina Totenberg

The court wrapped up on Monday, supporting the use of a controversial drug for executions by lethal injection. The justices also set up cases to be heard next term on affirmative action and abortion.

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A Tea Party supporter rings a bell in protest of the health care law in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, as Obamacare supporters shout behind her.

Drama On The Docket: High Court's Term Set To End With Slate Of Big Cases

3:25pm June 15, 2015

by Ron Elving

It's crunch time for the U.S. Supreme Court, as consequential decisions will be coming soon. The biggest issues left: same-sex marriages, subsidies under Obamacare and lethal injection drugs.

A view of the death chamber from the witness room at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.

Nebraska Repeals Death Penalty, But U.S. Isn't Quite Ready To Abandon It

8:45am May 28, 2015

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Cost and lethal injection complications have led some states to reconsider the death penalty. U.S. support for the practice has declined over the last two decades, but 3 in 5 still support it.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor grilled lawyers arguing the constitutionality of new lethal-injection cocktails.

It's Sotomayor V. Roberts In Supreme Court Death Penalty Drama

7:13pm April 29, 2015

by Nina Totenberg

Justice Sonia Sotomayor and lawyers arguing in favor of Oklahoma's lethal-injection cocktail got into a clash so pronounced that Chief Justice John Roberts chastised Sotomayor for talking too much.

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Utah Brings Back Firing Squad Executions; Witnesses Recall The Last One

2:50pm April 08, 2015

by NPR Staff

A new law in Utah allows firing squad as a backup method of execution if lethal injection drugs aren't available. The last time an inmate died by firing squad in the U.S. was in Utah in 2010.

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Bill To Allow Execution By Firing Squad Advances In Utah

7:49pm February 13, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The Republican-controlled House has voted to revive the option, which was discontinued in 2004, if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed to perform an execution by lethal injection.

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Supreme Court Tells Oklahoma To Put Off Executions, Citing Drug Dispute

4:41pm January 28, 2015

by Bill Chappell

The execution of three inmates has been put on hold, as the Supreme Court intervenes in a case that involves the controversy over the drugs used to put people to death.

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Botched Lethal Injection Executions Reignite Death Penalty Debate

6:36pm January 06, 2015

by Wade Goodwyn

Capital punishment and lethal injection were in the news quite a bit in 2014. Unable to secure certain drugs, states began using new ones, and that caused a number of executions to go awry.

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