Baze v. Rees

Baze v. Rees
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 7, 2008 Decided April 16, 2008
Full case name	Ralph Baze and Thomas C. Bowling v. John Dewitt Rees, Commissioner, Kentucky Department of Corrections
Docket no.	07-5439
Citations	553 U.S. 35 (more) 128 S. Ct. 1520; 170 L. Ed. 2d 420
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	217 S.W.3d 207 (Ky. 2007); cert. granted, 551 U.S. 1192 (2007); order modified, 552 U.S. 945 (2007).
Holding
Cocktail using three drugs for execution by lethal injection in Kentucky is constitutional under the Eighth Amendment. Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Case opinions
Plurality	Roberts, joined by Kennedy, Alito
Concurrence	Alito
Concurrence	Stevens (in judgment)
Concurrence	Scalia (in judgment), joined by Thomas
Concurrence	Thomas (in judgment), joined by Scalia
Concurrence	Breyer (in judgment)
Dissent	Ginsburg, joined by Souter
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. VIII

Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. 35 (2008), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which upheld the constitutionality of a particular method of lethal injection used for capital punishment.