In one decision, the court allowed death row inmates to file last-minute challenges to lethal injection.
The move came after the drawn-out death by lethal injection of Puerto Rican-born Diaz on Wednesday.
The only question for the jury is Moussaoui's punishment, either death by lethal injection or life imprisonment.
Dahlia, what exactly do these death row inmates say is the matter with the lethal injection process?
The U.S. Supreme Court put a Florida execution on hold, and will hear arguments about lethal injection next week.
Court battles over lethal injection have flared across the country in recent years.
She would be only the third female in the United States to be given lethal injection in the past decade.
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All of these claimants were saying, lethal injection, lethal injection, and so the question becomes: what is the pattern here?
Convicted killer and rapist Michael Morales was scheduled to die by lethal injection just after midnight at California's San Quentin prison.
Michael Ross, a convicted serial killer, was put to death by lethal injection in 2005 after he voluntarily gave up his appeals.
The death penalty in two states was more or less put on hold over concerns that executions by lethal injection had been botched.
In February, a judge ruled that convicted murderer Michael Morales could be put to death by lethal injection if a doctor monitored the execution.
Clarke separately cut deals for all three to avoid lethal injection.
Litigation over lethal injection has already halted executions in ten states.
Virginia uses lethal injection to execute prisoners unless the inmate requests the electric chair, and has carried out 89 executions since the practice resumed in 1982.
Execution in Colorado is by lethal injection and hasn't been carried out since 1997, when Gary Davis was executed for raping and murdering a woman in 1986.
Execution in Colorado is by lethal injection and hasn't been carried out since 1997 on Gary Davis, who had been convicted of raping and murdering a woman in 1986.
The Supreme Court triggered an outrage when it voted to grant Echegaray a six-month reprieve, until June 15, three hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
The lethal injection was administered to McVeigh's right leg.
But they are sort of the character, on the one we were talking about the lethal injection case, they sort of narrowly resolve the issue before the court, without creating big waves.
Since 1976, when the Supreme Court allowed death-penalty laws to be reinstated after a four-year hiatus, 38 of the country's 50 states have done so, though most of them have replaced electric chairs and gas chambers with the supposedly kinder system of lethal injection.
The Georgia Court of Appeals acted on a appeal of a challenge to the way the prison handles the lethal injection drugs used in executions, while the federal appeals court issued a stay "ordering a further briefing on the issue of mental retardation, " Kammer said.
It doesn't allow for doctors to administer euthanasia by injection, though it authorizes them to prescribe lethal drugs that the patient can choose to take.
COMMANDED, at some hour after 6:00 p.m. on the 17th day of February, 2004, at the Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville, Texas, to carry out this sentence of death by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause the death of said Cameron Todd Willingham.
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