Capital punishment appeals denied

The US Supreme Court has turned down an appeal today from two Georgia inmates who face capital punishment.

The court blocked the executions of Samuel Crowe and Joseph Williams last fall while it considered a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection procedures.

Critics of lethal injection procedures have said that if the first drug is administered incorrectly or in an insufficient dosage, the inmate could suffer excruciating pain from the other two drugs.

But because the second drug is a paralytic, he would be unable to express his discomfort.