US set to resume executions following ruling

THE way has been cleared for the United States to resume executions after the Supreme Court upheld Kentucky’s use of lethal injection executions yesterday.

Executions have been on hold for nearly eight months.

The justices, by a 7-2 vote, turned back a constitutional challenge to the procedures in place in Kentucky, which uses three drugs to sedate, paralyse and kill inmates. Similar methods are used by roughly three dozen states.