Midazolam can be used, a majority on the bench ruled, but dissenting judges raise questions about the methods employed to kill, and the constitutionality of the death penalty in the U.S.
By: Mark Sherman
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WASHINGTON—A deeply divided Supreme Court has upheld the use of a controversial drug in lethal-injection executions, even as two dissenting justices said for the first time they think it’s “highly likely” the death penalty itself is unconstitutional.