Lethal Injection

Unapproved Lethal Injection Drugs In California Prisons

| Posted 05.30.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch By Ryan Gabrielson California prison officials are trying to keep possession of a scarce l...

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The Death Penalty is the Tip of America's Human Rights Iceberg

David A. Love | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Voter ID Laws, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Human Rights, Lethal Injection, Income Inequality, Crime, Civil Rights, Power & Politics, Black Voices News

There's a buzz about the death penalty in America these days and nearly all of the conversation focuses not on how to maintain the practice, but on abolition. Faced with the high cost, lack of deterrent effect and the inevitability of executing innocent people, some states are taking another look.

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Did This Man Suffer Cruel And Unusual Pain During Execution?

Reuters | Steve Robrahn | Posted 04.27.2012

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(Reuters) - A Kentucky judge ordered state officials to consider using a single drug to carry out executions instead of a series of three drugs used b...

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Nebraska Defies Order To Surrender Controversial Execution Drug

AP | MARGERY A. BECK | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Video, Execution, Jon Bruning, Sodium Thiopental, Nebraska Execution, Nebraska Death Penalty, Nebraska, Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Politics News

OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska will not surrender its supply of a controversial execution drug to the Food and Drug Administration because it believes t...

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Lethal Injection As the Death Penalty's Last Stand

David A. Love | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: European Union, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Fda, Human Rights, Lethal Injection, Crime, Black Voices News

Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the death penalty in America? All of it might come down to a basic issue of supply.

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Serial Killer's Execution Set For Today

AP | BRENDAN FARRINGTON | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Florida Crime, David Alan Gore, David Alan Gore Serial Killer, Vero Beach Serial Killer, Lethal Injection, David Alan Gore Execution, Florida Death Penalty, Miami News

STARKE, Fla. — A Florida inmate was put to death Thursday, nearly three decades after the murder of 17-year-old Lynn Elliott, whose failed escap...

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Lethal injection drug access could put executions on hold

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Beuthanasia, Potassium Chloride, Social Issues, Pancuronium, Capital Punishment, Medical, Lethal Injection, General Anesthetics, Health, Sodium Thiopental, Barbiturates, Anticonvulsants, Food and Drug Administration, Pharma, Pentobarbital, Politics News

By Kimberly Leonard, iWatch NewsA federal judge's decision to block imports of a drug used in executions will leave states to rely more on a substit...

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GOP State Rep. Proposes Bringing Back Electric Chair, Firing Squads: 'I Am So Tired Of Being Humane'

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 12.12.2011

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Here's a piece of legislation you don't see every day. One Florida state Rep. is proposing a big change to the way his state handles executions. Brad ...

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Justice Stephen Breyer's Plea to Spare Life of Man Executed in Florida

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Murder, Supreme Court, Executions, Florida, Capital Punishment, Crime, Georgia, Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Politics News

The state of Florida executed Manuel Valle, 61, two nights ago. The U.S. Supreme Court, as expected, had denied a stay.

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Why Americans Still Support The Death Penalty

Radley Balko | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Dna Testing, Texas, Hank Skinner, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Death Penalty Support, Innocence Project, Troy Davis, Rick Perry, Politics News

It has long been the conventional wisdom on both sides of the death penalty debate that if a state or the federal government were ever shown to have e...

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Next Execution in USA: Today in Florida -- As Use of New Chemicals Draws Protest

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Murder, Death Penalty, Florida, Lethal Injection, Execution, Crime, Manuel Valle, Politics News

Manuel Valle's execution is drawing added interest as a kind of "test" of a new execution "cocktail" of chemicals. Protests by activists led to a leading supplier refusing to continue to send lethal chemicals to death rows.

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Think the Death Penalty Can't Be Ended in USA? Here's How it Happened Before

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Murder, Troy Davis, Executions, Capital Punishment, Crime, Death Penalty, Prisons, Lethal Injection, Politics News

Most probably are not even aware that the death penalty was once banned in America -- and not so long ago. And it happened rather suddenly and unexpectedly.

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I Am Troy Davis

Tanya Greene | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Troy Davis, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Lethal Injection, Georgia, I Am Troy Davis, Criminal Justice System, Sylvester Coles, Mark MacPhail, Naacp, Politics News

Last night, Georgia strapped down an innocent human being and forced lethal poison into his veins. This case had most of the worst of what we have come to fear from our criminal justice system.

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Troy Anthony Davis And Georgia's Plan To Commit An Irreversible Sin

Michele Somerville | Posted 11.21.2011

Despite that a preponderance of doubt still attends the Troy Anthony Davis death sentence, it looks like the state of Georgia will strap him to a table tomorrow and end his life.

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Delaware Ax Murderer Executed

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 09.28.2011

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SMYRNA, Del. — A man convicted of killing a woman with an ax during a botched home burglary has become Delaware's first inmate to be executed si...

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Georgia Inmate Dies In Video-Recorded Execution

AP | By SHANNON McCAFFREY | Posted 09.20.2011

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JACKSON, Ga. (Associated Press) — A Georgia man convicted of killing his parents and sister was executed Thursday after the courts allowed what expe...

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Georgia Delays First Videotaped Execution In Nearly Two Decades

AP | SHANNON McCAFFREY | Posted 09.20.2011

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JACKSON, Ga. (Associated Press) -- A Georgia man convicted of killing his parents and sister was executed Thursday after the courts allowed what exper...

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Last Words Of Post-9/11 'Arab Slayer' A Message Of Peace

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.01.2011

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After a lifetime of bitter prejudice that drove him to kill innocent strangers, Mark Stroman died with a message of peace. Stroman, 41, was execut...

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Famous Death Row Last Meals

Posted 08.17.2011

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Regardless of your beliefs when it comes to the death penalty, one thing we've become accustomed to hearing and talking about is the famous last meal....

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Supreme Court: Texas May Proceed With Execution

AP | Posted 07.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has lifted its hold on the execution of a Texas man convicted in the shooting death of a woman in 2002. The court's o...

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Denmark Company Supplies Major U.S. Executioners

Amnesty International | Posted 05.31.2011

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Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck has sold pentobarbital to four of the most prolific executing states in the U.S.

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Finding the Right Poison

Andrea Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abolition of Death Penalty, Wrongful Conviction, Governor Pat Quinn, Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Cruel and Unusual, Execution, California, Politics News

Is it all right for the person to be paralyzed and in pain and know they are about to die for one minute? Five? Ten? An hour? Where do we draw the line?

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Documents Reveal California's Worldwide Execution Drug Search

AP | PAUL ELIAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO — The e-mail from one California prison official to another almost reads like something out of a spy novel: "May have a secret and...

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In Memoriam: Christina Zisa

Pearl Korn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christina Zisa's story is worth telling, particularly in light of our President's speech last night in which he expressed interest in bringing down healthcare costs by enacting "medical malpractice reform to rein in frivolous lawsuits."

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Condemned Man's Last Request: Don't Screw It Up

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Death Penalty Debate, Executions, Capital Punishment, California Executions, Death Penalty, California Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Los Angeles News

A California man convicted of rape and murder 40 years ago has asked that his execution be stopped because the state can't guarantee it will be pain free.

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