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Conceptual and Scientific Defects in the Supreme Court's "Method of Execution" Jurisprudence
David R Dow1, Jeffrey R Newberry2
1Cullen Professor, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX.
Abstract:
The Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments. However, no method of executing prisoners has ever been deemed by the Supreme Court to constitute Cruel and Unusual Punishment. Constitutional challenges to the dominant mode of executing prisoners today - lethal injection - are hobbled by a lack of clinical data that would reveal the likelihood this method might inflict gratuitous pain. Here, we assess the contemporary Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, including its legal and scientific limitations, and suggest modifications.
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