‘The pointless and needless extinction of life’: USA should now look beyond lethal injection issue to wider death penalty questions

‘The pointless and needless extinction of life’: USA should now look beyond lethal injection issue to wider death penalty questions

Yesterday’s US Supreme Court ruling in Baze v. Rees upholding the constitutionality of Kentucky’s lethal injection procedures will in all likelihood be followed by moves in various US jurisdictions to resume executions, although the ruling is unlikely to stop litigation on this issue. Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases, unconditionally, regardless of the method chosen to kill the condemned prisoner.