Oklahoma Death Row Inmates Suffering From Lethal Injections

The most popular method of execution in this country for the past several decades has been lethal injection not counting by police. It was originally thought that lethal injection was a relatively humane way to kill someone especially compared to electric chairs. In recent years it has come to light that certain types of lethal injection might be extremely painful which resulted in some people questioning whether it should be constitutional. This particular challenge involves Oklahoma's use of the anesthetic Madazalam for lethal injections, which there were reasons to believe it was resulting in notably cruel and painful deaths Richard Glossop and 20 other Oklahoma death row inmates sued claiming that the use of the drug was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court in a five to four decision written by