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Legal Update: Lethal Injection, DUI’s, Immigration

KPBS | By KPBS Public Broadcasting
Published April 22, 2008 at 9:45 AM PDT
This story was published more than 16 years ago.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules on the legality of lethal injection and whether prior DUI convictions can add time to a convicted felon's sentence. Meanwhile, the Ninth District Court of Appeals decides

Legal Update: Lethal Injection, DUI’s, Immigration

Tom Fudge: Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, once again, that the death penalty does not violate the Constitution's 8th Amendment, barring cruel and unusual punishment. Specifically, they ruled that the use of three drugs to kill death row inmates did not subject them to an unacceptable degree of pain and suffering. This is a big deal for California, because the three-drug cocktail is the way we execute people.

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