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Article: Executions Poised to Resume After Court Ruling
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- April 17, 2008
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LYNN NEARY
NPR Morning Edition
04-17-2008
Executions Poised to Resume After Court Ruling
Host: LYNN NEARY
Time 10:00-11:00 AM
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LYNN NEARY, host:
Today, dozens of men on death row whose executions had been put on hold are facing imminent execution. The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday upheld the three- drug protocol for lethal injection used in all 36 death penalty states.
NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reports.
NINA TOTENBERG: The first drug on the lethal injection protocol is to sedate, the second to paralyze, and the third to kill. Critics contend that it poses an unnecessary risk of pain and suffering that could easily be avoided with a simple overdose of a ...
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