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Article: Debate grows on humaneness of lethal injection: Supreme Court ruling intensifies discussion.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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Byline: Alan Johnson
Jun. 22--Hanging, firing squads, the gas chamber and the electric chair -- all were abandoned over the years to make executions more humane, as well as less ghastly for witnesses.
Now lethal injection, which has been used nationally since 1982 and in Ohio since 1999, is under fire from critics who say it is violates the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
"I'm quite certain that some inmates have been tortured to death. Some of them have suffered horribly," said Dr. Jonathan Groner, trauma medical director at Children's Hospital and a longtime critic of execution procedures.
The three-drug process ...