America's execution chambers fell idle on Wednesday after the Supreme Court made it clear it will allow no more prisoners to be put to death until it reviews the legality of the lethal injection. Death penalty campaigners on Wednesday said they expected the informal moratorium to last at least until next summer.
A month after the United States Supreme Court agreed to wade into the lethal injection debate, executions are effectively on hold across the nation as courts and politicians sit tight. On September 25, the country's highest court agreed to examine whether lethal injections are "cruel and unusual" punishment.
