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Article: Lethal injections may leave inmates feeling pain.(Front)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2007
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Byline: BOB LAMENDOLA
By Bob LaMendola
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The three-drug combination used for lethal injections in Virginia, North Carolina and 35 other states does not reliably execute inmates and may leave them feeling pain as they die, University of Miami medical school researchers found in a study released this week.
"Lethal injection protocols are not adequate to ensure a predictable, painless death," the researchers wrote in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine.
In fact, inmates put to death by lethal injection may get less ...