Justice Sotomayor compares the death penalty drug to "being burned at the stake"

In dissent from Monday's Supreme Court ruling to uphold the use of a death penalty drug, Justice Sonia Sotomayor likened the drug to methods of medieval torture, including the burning of heretics at the stake and the slow torturing of people to death. The legal injection drug that Sotomayor railed against has been used in previous botched injections, including the 2014 death of Oklahoma row inmate Clayton Lockett that took 43 minutes. Sotomayor argued that the drug violates the Eight Amendment p...