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The Supreme Court on Monday appeared unconvinced that the lethal-injection procedure used for capital punishment poses enough risk of pain that it raises constitutional objections as "cruel and unusual" punishment. The three-drug "cocktail" used to anesthetize, paralyze and then kill inmates is the focus in . "Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?" asked Justice Antonin Scalia. "Is that somewhere in our Constitution?"