The Bill of Rights specifically protects against “cruel and unusual punishment.” The death penalty is the ultimate denial of civil liberties, and the ACLU is committed in its opposition to this cruel and unusual punishment.
On September 11, 2014, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, on behalf of four newspapers, including the Guardian,the Philadelphia Inquirer,the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Philadelphia City Paper, asked a federal judge to unseal court records that contain information about the source of the drugs used for lethal injections in Pennsylvania.