Opinion ID: 2544290
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Heading: Method of Execution Challenge

Text: Finally, Kilgore claims that electrocution and/or lethal injection violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and international law. This claim is also procedurally barred. See Suggs v. State, 923 So.2d 419, 441 (Fla.2005) (Suggs claims that execution by electrocution or lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Because this claim was not raised on direct appeal, it is procedurally barred.) It is also without merit. See, e.g., Tompkins v. State, 994 So.2d 1072, 1080-82 (Fla.2008) (upholding the constitutionality of Florida's capital-sentencing scheme and lethal-injection protocol). Accordingly, we deny relief for this claim.