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.
Rees, a badly splintered Court upheld lethal injection as a method of execution.
Court battles over lethal injection have flared across the country in recent years.
Parliament approved several methods for applying the death penalty, the Post Courier reported, including hanging, lethal injection, firing squad and electrocution.
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?
Usually he gave the victims a lethal injection before dropping them into the sea from the back of the plane.
This is the right way to target this problem: You shoot it, you stab it, you give it a lethal injection.
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.
Those doctors had been asked to attend the execution after Morales's legal team called California's lethal injection cocktail cruel and unusual punishment.
So far, all the known executions by lethal injection in China have taken place in the southwestern province of Yunnan, bordering Southeast Asia.
The death penalty in two states was more or less put on hold over concerns that executions by lethal injection had been botched.
Burmese drug trafficker Naw Kham and four other men will be executed by lethal injection in Kunming on Friday, S outhern Metropolis Daily reports.
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.
She is a strong supporter of the death penalty and says lethal injection "is the most humane thing we could" to the man who murdered Michael.
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.
Mr Morales, who in 1981 strangled, bludgeoned, stabbed and raped his cousin's 17-year-old girlfriend, was due to die by lethal injection at one minute past midnight on February 22nd.
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.
The state has by far the nation's largest death row population at 727 inmates, but has not carried out an execution since 2005, over continuing legal challenges to the lethal injection procedures.
CNN: Executions, death sentences remain steady over past year
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.
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