Death Penalty; U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge against controversial Execution Drug [Read the Judgment]

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled against three death row prisoners who had brought a challenge to the use of the controversial lethal injection, midazolam drug on the ground that it violates the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.Midazolam is used to sedate inmates before injecting them with two other drugs, and the petitioners argued that...