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Another Stab at the Death Penalty
Last year I argued that the frequently employed cocktail of questionably sourced sedatives and heart-stopping drugs is unreliable, and that its use in lethal injections for condemned criminals in the United States amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. (Re: Cruel and Usual, WUPR 21.2.) But what is “cruel and unusual,” really? This language, pulled directly…
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Cruel and Usual
BY SAMUEL KLEIN In a harshly lit room, a physician, an employee of the state, twists open three valves in sequence. Lethal chemicals, often from an undisclosed source, rush down narrow plastic tubing into the veins of a condemned inmate. Within a few minutes, the inmate’s heart stops beating, leaving the body of the vicious…
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