Supreme Court Agrees To Rule On Constitutionality Of Execution Drug Cocktail

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to review Oklahoma's method of execution by lethal injection. The justices agreed to hear the Oklahoma case a week after refusing to halt another execution that used the same drug formula.

It takes the votes of five justices to halt an execution but only four votes to grant review. Therefore, last week, the high court refused to block the execution of death row inmate Charles Warner in Oklahoma, over the objections of the court's four liberal justices.



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