Does the execution of an innocent person by lethal injection constitute a constitutional intolerable event?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from In re Reno, S124660 (Cal. 2012):
37. See Herrera v. Collins, supra, 506 U.S. at page 419 (conc. opn. of O'Connor, J.) ("the execution of a legally and factually innocent person would be a constitutionally intolerable event.").
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