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Justices Open Door For Injection Case

The Supreme Court gave the green light for a Florida death row inmate to challenge that state's lethal-injection procedures through a federal civil rights lawsuit, in a unanimous ruling that underscored the pivotal role of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in the court's death-penalty jurisprudence. They will decide whether Florida's method of executing inmates -- which, like that of most other states, employs three chemicals in sequence -- could subject a convict to excruciating but undetected pain, in violation of their civil rights.

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