One Too Many Cocktails: A Lethal Dose of Uncertainty in Executions
On November 20, 2019, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan issued a preliminary injunction halting four executions that the Justice Department planned to carry out in December. [1] Judge Chutkan stated that the plaintiffs would, “suffer the irreparable harm of being executed under a potentially unlawful procedure before their claims can be fully adjudicated.” [2] These legal challenges to the lethal injection procedure originally stemmed from a series of botched executions in