232 (district court’s finding that “two and a half minutes from the onset of injection [of the anesthetic] is optimal” to achieve the appropriate plane of anesthesia). In light of the district court’s findings and the defendants’ recent revision to the protocol, we conclude that Patton has failed to establish a “significant possibility of success on the merits” of his Eighth Amendment claims. Hill, 126 S.Ct. at 2104. In reaching this conclusion, we agree with the district court that the critical question in this case “is not what is optimally desirable,” as, for example, in a surgical setting, but rather “what is minimally required” to avoid a violation of the Eighth Amendment. ROA, Vol. 4 at 239; see generally Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 173, 96 S.Ct. 2909, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976) (<HOLDING>); In re Kemmler, 136 U.S. 436, 447, 10 S.Ct.
holding that the death penalty does not violate the prohibition against cruel punishments set forth in article 1 section 13 of the pennsylvania constitution holding that emotional pain and a need for counseling combined with physical pain medical bills loss of employment and a need for sexual therapy supported a claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress holding that claims are related if they involve a common core of facts or they are based on related legal theories holding that punishments are cruel when they involve torture or a lingering death holding that punishments are cruel when they involve the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain