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High Court May Not Decide Lethal Injection in Hill v. McDonough

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The Supreme Court's rejection of a Tennessee murderer's challenge to lethal injestion suggests that its upcoming decision in Hill v. McDonough may focus on the procedural question regarding the use of a civil rights lawsuit to attack a method of execution rather than on the issue of whether lethal injection violates the Eighth Amendment. Read the Associated Press story here

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