Posted Mar 11, 2014 1:37 PM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A one-sentence dissent suggests some U.S. Supreme Court justices are ready to consider the issue of secret suppliers of drugs used to execute prisoners.
Some states are refusing to divulge the names of the compounding pharmacies they are using to obtain lethal-injection drugs, confounding inmates’ Eighth Amendment challenges. The dissent to the denial of certiorari in a death-penalty case was issued on Feb. 25 by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, the New York Times reports.
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By Debra Cassens Weiss
A one-sentence dissent suggests some U.S. Supreme Court justices are ready to consider the issue of secret suppliers of drugs used to execute prisoners.
Some states are refusing to divulge the names of the compounding pharmacies they are using to obtain lethal-injection drugs, confounding inmates’ Eighth Amendment challenges. The dissent to the denial of certiorari in a death-penalty case was issued on Feb. 25 by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, the New York Times reports.
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