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The US Supreme Court has just ruled that there is no solid support for the claim that lethal injections cause unnecessary pain in the convicted, and cited that the method appears to be the "most humane" in carrying out the death sentence. The 7-2 vote may mean that the 36 states that have death penalties could resume executing the convicted, a practice that has been halted since an execution in Kentucky was challenged.
Do you think death sentences would resume in any of the states by the end of May, 2008?
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Texas will resume its executions on June 3, this after the Supreme Court ruled lethal injections are not cruel and unusual punishment. Virginia set July 24 as the execution date for a man convicted of bludgeoning a co-worker to death in 2001, but who is challenging the state’s method of lethal injection.
Kentucky is one of 38 states in the United States that sanctions the death penalty for certain crimes. Criminals convicted after March 31, 1998 are always executed by lethal injection; those convicted before this date may opt for the electric chair. Only two people have been executed in Kentucky since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstituted the practice in 1976. The most notable execution in Kentucky, however, was that of Rainey Bethea on August 14, 1936. Bethea was publicly hanged in Owensboro for the rape and murder of Lischia Edwards. Irregularities with the execution led to this becoming the last public execution in the United States.
Even though lethal injections does not cause any pain in the convicted, the practise may not help to reduce the crime rate at all. The root problem is in our culture - more deliberating individualism. The practise may also make a wrong judgment irreversible. In addition, the Supreme Court is also aware that death penalty is not practiced by all states. The irregularities make hard to apply death sentence to any Americans.