In his recent Supreme Court opinion upholding Kentucky's execution method, Chief Justice John Roberts says the state's lethal injection procedure passes constitutional muster because it does not pose "a substantial risk of serious harm." You might think serious harm would be hard to avoid with a procedure that's designed to take someone's life.

Roberts, of course, is not talking about the harm that inevitably occurs when someone dies; he is talking about the possibility of pa ...

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