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In the Baze v. Rees case, two inmates named Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling were convicted for murder and sentenced with the death penalty. In 1992, Ralph Baze killed a Kentucky County Sheriff with three shots fired in his back, and also killed a deputy sheriff with two shots in the back and one in the back of his head (Rushford). The other inmate, Thomas Bowling rammed into a car in the dry cleaning parking lot; he got out of the car and shot the couple and the two-year-old child in the car and drove away in 1990 (Rushford). Baze and Bowling had claimed that Kentucky’s lethal injections is cruel and unusual punishment which is a violation of his Eighth Amendment rights. The lethal injections is a process that includes a dose of Diazepam which

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