Justices says it's ok to use midazolam to execute people as it is not in violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
This time it was 5-4 with Justice Samuel Alito writing for the majority, along with John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.
Through the years, I have vacillated back and forth on the death penalty. Do we have the right to take the life of a person regardless of the heinous crime he has committed. Do we as a people have the moral right to impose capital punishment and treat people as non-human? The law says that we do.
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We have found out over the past few days that the Supreme Court is not always right.
Really wrong as our house reps make law and the supreme court (1/3 of the executive branch & unelected - unaccountable - can't be fired) is only to judge it - not re-write it in their own image! Make Everyone Obey ALL THE LAWS equally, SS & obamacare for starters and things will correct themselves!
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