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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/supreme_court_decision_could_affect_flathead_murderer/1154/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: A recent U.S. Supreme Court announcement to examine the constitutionality and cruelty of lethal injection could influence the fate of Montana’s two death row inmates, one of which is a murderer convicted for crimes in the Flathead. The Supreme Court announced in September it will hear the claims of two convicted murderers on death row in Kentucky who argue that lethal injection is “cruel and unusual punishment,” which violates the Eighth Amendment. The court hasn’t ruled on the constitutionality of an execution method since it voted to allow firing squads in Utah in 1895. Lethal injection is the only form of death penalty in Montana.