Commentary: The anti-death-penalty movement just got a cold dose of Gorsuch
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an argument from a condemned murderer that his execution would violate the 8th Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment because an underlying physical condition from which he suffers would make the process excessively painful. The Constitution, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote for the majority, does not entitle the condemned to a painless death, just one that does not inflict additional or unnecessary pain as part of the punishment.
