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Posted on Tuesday 25 September 2007

Ralph S. Baze speaks during an interview, Sept. 10, 2007, at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Ky. The Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in a Kentucky case that could affect the way inmates are executed around the country. The high court will hear a challenge from two inmates on death row in Kentucky — Ralph S. Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr. — who sued Kentucky in 2004, claiming lethal injection amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. (AP Photo/Daniel R. Patmore, File)AP - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take a hard look at the method of lethal injection most states use to put inmates to death in a case that could further slow the pace of executions.


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Posted on Tuesday 25 September 2007

Ralph S. Baze speaks during an interview, Sept. 10, 2007, at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Ky. The Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in a Kentucky case that could affect the way inmates are executed around the country. The high court will hear a challenge from two inmates on death row in Kentucky — Ralph S. Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr. — who sued Kentucky in 2004, claiming lethal injection amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. (AP Photo/Daniel R. Patmore, File)AP - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take a hard look at the method of lethal injection most states use to put inmates to death in a case that could further slow the pace of executions.


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