PHOENIX โ The nation's high court this morning refused to outlaw executions with a drug used in Arizona.
The justices acknowledged that other drugs may be preferable but said states like Arizona were having trouble obtaining them. They said the use of midazolam does not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
Death-row inmates in Oklahoma are objecting to the use of the sedative in lethal-injection executions after the drug was implicated in several botched executions.
