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The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a Kentucky death penalty case that could help determine how Florida lethally injects convicted killers.  Kentucky inmates are challenging the three-drug cocktail that Florida and other states use.  Killers are given a strong dose of painkiller, then a paralyzing drug, and finally, a drug that stops their heart.  Death penalty opponents are hopeful the Supreme Court will rule that the current lethal injection protocol is cruel and inhumane.

“We have a procedure that doesn’t work,” said Larry Spalding of the ACLU.  “It’s incredibly expensive.  We now have life imprisonment without eligibility for parole.  And that, I think most citizens across the country are coming to the conclusion is the punishment that we should have for the worst of the worst.”

Last year was the first year in two decades where Florida did not execute someone on death row.