Are New Execution Drugs 'Cruel and Unusual'?

Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 18:00 in Health & Medicine

Attorneys for convicted murderer Dennis McGuire and medical experts argued that the use of the drugs represented an unconstitutional, "cruel and unusual" execution because of the possibility that McGuire would be conscious and in pain as he died.

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