JUST IN: U.S. Supreme Court rules that the first federal executions in 17 years can be carried out.
The Supreme Court early Tuesday ruled that the first federal executions in 17 years can be carried out.blocked four inmates from being executed.
Daniel Lewis Lee was originally scheduled to receive a lethal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital at 4 p.m. ET Monday, but a federal judge's order prevented his execution. Tuesday's unsigned Supreme Court majority opinion says that"the plaintiffs have not established that they are likely to succeed on the merits of their Eighth Amendment claim" and"that claim faces an exceedingly high bar."
The Eighth Amendment bars cruel and unusual punishment. The Supreme Court majority opinion says that the executions may proceed as planned. All four executions are to take place at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.Monday morning that three death row inmates, and a fourth whose execution is scheduled for August, could pursue their claim that the federal government's plan to use a single drug will cause severe pain and needless suffering.
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