Criminal,
Constitutional Law,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Sep. 18, 2019
Government can't mute executions, 9th Circuit rules
The public may not be prevented from hearing the sounds of a prisoner being put to death, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel held Tuesday.
The public may not be prevented from hearing the sound of a prisoner being put to death, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel held Tuesday in an appeal that suggested Arizona's lethal injection protocol inflicted needless pain on condemned convicts.
The panel invoked First Amendment protections rather than the "cruel and unusual" theories more common in capital punishment challenges and concluded the amendment known to ensure ...
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