Incredibly, the responsibility for creating lethal injection procedures is often delegated to prison employees without discussion, meaningful study, or oversight by elected representatives.
Jeff Danziger | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
Byron Williams | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
The Supreme Court this week upheld Kentucky's use of lethal injection, rejecting the claim that it violates the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause.
Andrew Gumbel | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Shame on the Supreme Court for preferring to inhabit their cocoon of respectability on lethal injections -- justice masked by legalese -- than to face the facts.
Gilbert King | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics
The Supreme Court hasn't shown much interest in examining the constitutionality of methods of execution, and has done so only a handful of times over the last 117 years.
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
If capital punishment ends only because of challenges and not because of a national reckoning with its full meaning, some cases will have let our nation off the hook in a way that cheapens our claim to being a judicious people.
Jamie Fellner | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics
Public officials have a human rights obligation to choose the specific drugs and methods of administration that carry the least risk of pain and suffering for the condemned.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics
This country's refusal to eliminate the death penalty belongs to a long tradition of ignoring judicial trends around the world, opposition to gun control is another glaring example.
Sarah Tofte | Posted 10.31.2007 | Politics
When it comes to the death penalty, nothing about the process, from conviction to killing, has ever been just.
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John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics