Baze v. Rees

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 2008-04-16

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Justice Ginsburg, with whom Justice Souter joins, dissenting. It is undisputed that the second and third drugs used in Kentucky’s three-drug lethal injection protocol, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride, would cause a conscious inmate to suffer excruciating pain. Pancuronium bromide *114 paralyzes th…

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