There is another lawsuit to try to prevent use of lethal injection under the 8th amendment. According to the law suit (similar to others filed), lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment because there is no way to know if the condemned is suffering from the drugs that kill him or her because they are under a paralytic drug that does not allow them to speak or move. There is no way to know if the anesthesia remains effective throughout the application of the other chemicals. Death penalty advocates have called this the death penalty opponent's "case du jour." Its much more than that though. Some argue that lethal injection is the "most humane" way to execute someone. If that is true, and lethal injection may be torturous to the victim, then perhaps the statement is that the "most humane" manner of execution is not humane at all. Perhaps, if the arguments of these lawsuits are true, there is no humane way of executing someone (after all, they are ending the life of a human being).

Lawsuits seek to ban lethal injection