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Death Penalty: The Supreme Court this week heard arguments that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. Euthanasia advocates consider it a blessing for the deathly ill. Yet it's cruel for the just plain deadly.<.font> The Supreme Court heard arguments last Monday not on the constitutionality of the death penalty itself but on whether the possibility that a murderer might experience pain if the three-chemical cocktail administered to death row inmates takes too long to do its job. In their brief to the court, lawyers for convicted murderers Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling say the three-part death cocktail and the...