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Article: Anomalies: ritual and language in lethal injection regulations.(The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science)
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- Fordham Urban Law Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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The state lethal injection protocols do not regulate lethal injections, but instead describe hypothetical rituals meant to reassure the reader--whomever that might be--that a controlled and orderly process, in accordance with the rule of law, will take place. The protocols are public relations documents, not legitimate legal regulations. Their status of "non-legal" documents, provisions without legal authority is evident from the fact that apparently they are not governed by state administrative procedure acts.
Epigraph: Culture, in the sense of the public, standardized values of a community, mediates the experience of individuals. It provides in advance some ...