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- The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment
- The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I A History of the Eighth Amendment
- Part II The Landscape of Eighth Amendment Doctrine
- Part III The Future of the Eighth Amendment
- 12 Judicial Abolition of the American Death Penalty under the Eighth Amendment: The Most Likely Path
- 13 Back to the Future with Execution Methods
- 14 Evolving Standards of Lethal Injection
- 15 The Future of Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Sentences
- 16 Metrics of Mayhem
- 17 Race Discrimination in Punishment
- 18 Science and the Eighth Amendment
- Index
13 - Back to the Future with Execution Methods
from Part III - The Future of the Eighth Amendment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2020
- The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment
- The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I A History of the Eighth Amendment
- Part II The Landscape of Eighth Amendment Doctrine
- Part III The Future of the Eighth Amendment
- 12 Judicial Abolition of the American Death Penalty under the Eighth Amendment: The Most Likely Path
- 13 Back to the Future with Execution Methods
- 14 Evolving Standards of Lethal Injection
- 15 The Future of Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Sentences
- 16 Metrics of Mayhem
- 17 Race Discrimination in Punishment
- 18 Science and the Eighth Amendment
- Index
Summary
Lethal injection, the most common method of execution in the United States, is at an impasse. Despite three U.S. Supreme Court decisions upholding particular lethal injection protocols, inmates continue to challenge this method on the grounds that it is inhumane and unconstitutional, and states continue to cling to scientifically uninformed procedures in an effort to ensure the death penalty’s survival generally. Yet lethal injection is simply the last in a long line of disastrous execution methods.
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- The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment , pp. 212 - 233Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020