The lawyer for condemned prison inmate Michael Taylor has taken Taylor’s case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Taylor’s lawyers maintain Missouri’s procedure for administering lethal injection is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.
The issue has been up and down in the court system for 18 months since a federal judge stopped Taylor’s execution just hours before it was to take place in 2006. He’s one of two inmates under a death sentence for kidnapping, raping, and murdering a 15-year-old Kansas City girl in 1989.
