Francisco Goya’s “The Third of May 1808,” an 1814 oil on canvas in the Museo Nacional del Prado, commemorates the horrific response to Spaniards resisting Napoleonic rule
The Supreme Court has upheld a drug used in Oklahoma executions, dismissing the claim of three death-row inmates that it causes excruciating pain.
Basically, the majority of the Supremes said the inmates should’ve come up with an alternative drug – which Justice Sonia Sotomayor thought was nutty.
“Petitioners contend that Oklahoma’s current protocol is a barbarous method of punishment — the chemical equivalent of being burned alive,” Justice Sotomayor wrote. ...
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