Dalia Lithwick
Fates worse than Death, Slate
July 14th, 2015 Comments Off on The five justices who voted to allow this practice—described in Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent as “the chemical equivalent of being burned alive”—did so on the stunning legal theory that because some method of execution must be constitutional, there must be some constitutional means of carrying it out, and thus the use of the drug midazolam as part of the lethal injection cocktail must be constitutional.
Dalia Lithwick
Fates worse than Death, Slate