The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" id="mwATA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Supreme Court of the United States">U.S. Supreme Court</a> rules in the <i id="mwATE"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baze_v._Rees" id="mwATI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Baze v. Rees">Baze v. Rees</a></i> decision that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection" id="mwATM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lethal injection">execution by lethal injection</a> does not violate the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" id="mwATQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Eighth Amendment</a> ban against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_and_unusual_punishment" id="mwATU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cruel and unusual punishment">cruel and unusual punishment</a>.<sup about="#mwt72" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_16#cite_note-13" id="mwATY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwATc">[13]</span></a></sup>
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