The U.S. Supreme Court, after ruling last Wednesday that the lethal injection procedure used in Kentucky does not violate the Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, denied appeals today from inmates in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. The Supreme Court previously stayed the executions of Thomas Arthur from Alabama, Earl Wesley Berry from Mississippi and Carlton Turner from Texas while it considered the issue in Baze v. Rees.
Executions in other states across the country that were halted pending the Supreme Court’s decision are also likely to resume.
Source: http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1154//04-21-2008/20080421072002_16.html