Lethal Injection

Ohio's Perverse First Place

Deborah W. Denno | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Capital Punishment, Ohio Death Penalty, Ken Biros, Death Penalty Debate, Ohio, Death Penalty, Ohio Lethal Injection, Lethal Injection, Politics News
Deborah W. Denno

Over the decades, lethal injection has never met its purported goal of humaneness. And Ohio's latest method of using a single-drug formula does nothing to correct this.

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China Executes 2 People Over Tainted Milk Scandal

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, China Milk, Melamine Pet Food, Melamine Milk, Tainted, Baby Formula, Food Safety, Protein Powder, Beijing, Communist Party, Tainted Milk, Melamine, Sanlu, Bad Milk, Chinese Baby Formula, Milk Scandal, Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Standards, China, World News

BEIJING — China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula – severe puni...

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Death from Cluelessness: State Killing Machines and the Penalty of Indifference

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Supreme Court, Rick Perry, Death Penalty, Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas-Executions, Death Row, Execution, Crime Rates, Lethal Injection, Dna Evidence, Death Row Acquittals, David Spence, Ruben Cantu, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Carl Sagan famously said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The claim that killing prisoners acts as a deterrent or keeps police safe is indeed extraordinary.

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Lethal Injection Revisited

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Romell Broom, Supreme Court Lethal Injections, Politics News
Christopher Brauchli

It is so easy to view the death penalty as nothing more than a means to an end that we sometimes overlook the fact that it shouldn't be an unpleasant experience for the person involved.

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Ohio Death Penalty

Jeff Danziger | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

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Jeff Danziger

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Death Penalty Repeal in the Land of Enchantment

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gail Chasey, Capital Punishment, Death-Penatly, Repeal Death Penalty, Thomas Jefferson, Georgia O'Keeffe, Murder, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, New Mexico, Prison, Electric Chair, New Mexico Governor Richardson, Death Penalty, New Mexico Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Land-of-Enchantment, Dna Evidence, Politics News
Diann Rust-Tierney

New Mexico's lawmakers concluded that they'd had enough of a system that does not deter murders, is unfairly and unequally applied, risks wrongful convictions, and diverts resources.

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Texas Meets a Death Penalty it Dislikes

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty, Texas, Lethal Injection, Euthanasia, Sleep, Sharon Keller, Politics News
Christopher Brauchli

There is no state in the United States that has proved itself a better friend to the death penalty. It has executed 431 people since the death penalty regained respectability in 1976.

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Wasting Money on a Ineffectual Policy

Byron Williams | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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Byron Williams

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.

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Masking Justice, Supreme Court Style

Andrew Gumbel | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kentucky Executions Moratorium, Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Execution, Supreme Court Death Penalty, Supreme Court Executions, Kentucky, Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, John Roberts, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Supreme Court Lethal Injections, Politics News
Andrew Gumbel

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.

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