Fordham Law School Professor Deborah Denno, a leading death penalty scholar, spoke to Politico about how the Supreme Court’s Baze v. Rees ruling in 2008 on Kentucky’s use of a then-popular three drug cocktail paved the way for its controversial Glossip v. Gross ruling this week allowing use of midazolam in injections.
“The Baze decision broke decades of silence from the Supreme Court regarding state execution methods.” The court held that a method of execution violates the Eighth Amendment only if there is “a substantial and objectively intolerable risk of serious harm” to the inmate.
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