US executions like being burned alive, says Supreme Court justice

By Nick O'Malley
Updated June 30 2015 - 12:13pm, first published 11:26am

Washington: The death penalty as it is practised in Oklahoma is a "a barbarous method of punishment – the chemical equivalent of being burned alive", a justice of the United States Supreme Court has written in an incendiary dissent to her colleagues' majority decision supporting capital punishment.

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