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U.S. court, "lethal injection not cruel"

Washington DC (United States), 16.04.2008 - The Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court, based in the capital has, in a landmark ruling the death penalty by a lethal injection declared admissible.

For over half a year, the death penalty in the form of lethal injection had not been applied because there was legal uncertainty as to this penalty. In several cases previously encountered complications because the syringe had not immediately led to death. The court now states that the constitutional prohibition of "cruel and unusual" methods of execution should not apply in the death by lethal injection. The

practiced since 1977, execution by lethal injection is based on the administration of three drugs, which are successively injected into the bloodstream of the death row and eventually lead to death of the offender. The first substance stunned the condemned, the second substance paralyzes the muscles and the third substance eventually leads to cardiac arrest. The faulty administration of the first substance leads to great suffering of the condemned. This Case had occurred several times in the U.S..

Yesterday was an annual report with Amnesty International (AI) on the worldwide application of the death penalty appeared. Thereafter, this punishment is used by fewer and fewer countries. Only five countries are responsible for 88 percent of all executions. These include China (470 executions, likely remain unreported), Iran (317) Saudi Arabia (143), Pakistan (135) and the United States with 42 executions. In a total of 62 states, the death penalty is still applied.

raised by Amnesty call for the abolition of the death penalty rejected the Chinese government. "It's not the right Time for China to abolish the death penalty, the Chinese people would not accept the abolition, "said a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

The Amnesty International documented death rates by the application of the death penalty shows a significant decline in this form of punishment by a fifth over the previous year. In 2007 1.252 persons were convicted by a court order against her life. Currently sitting, according to Amnesty worldwide and 20,000 people on death row awaiting execution.