, when Justice Anthony M. Kennedy cast a fifth vote with the four liberals. But after hearing the full appeal, the court rejected his constitutional claim, with Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh — who joined the court after Kennedy’s retirement — in the majority with the other four conservatives.
“The 8th Amendment has never been understood to guarantee a condemned inmate a painless death,” Gorsuch said in the courtroom. “What the 8th Amendment does guarantee is a method of execution that’s not ‘cruel and unusual.’ And ever since the founding, people have understood that the only way to tell if a method is cruel is to compare it with other known and available alternatives, to see if the state is inflicting substantially more pain than necessary to carry out its lawful sentence.
He said Bucklew’s lawyers failed to present evidence that nitrogen gas would be less painful. It would take longer for him to be rendered unconscious with gas than with an injection, Gorsuch said. “No state has ever actually carried out an execution using nitrogen gas,” Gorsuch said. “Nor does the Constitution require a state to develop a novel method of execution.”
Hang him. That would ENSURE choking!!!
Decision based upon Loyalist’s 18th CE legal thinkers.
Ok. ...I say eye for an eye
Great! I hope the murderer suffers a lot!
Suffer as you die
We're now a nation of Inquisitors. You will confess your sins and convert to Republican Trumpism or face having hot pokers jammed in your eyes.
They are sworn to uphold the Constitution. This is a clear violation of the 8th amendment. Aren't we supposed to be better than that?
Biden however is cleaning kids bathrooms in Venice beach primary for charity he says he loves working with kids and receives an energy boost when around them.