Article: Thailand to replace machine guns with lethal injections for executions

Article: China to Switch to Lethal Injections
AP Online;  January 3, 2008 ;     622 words ... ... country, will expand the use of lethal injections instead of gunshots for death ... carry most executions, now use lethal injections, the China Daily quoted Jiang ... crimes such as fraud. The human rights monitoring group Amnesty International ...

Article: Report: China to expand use of lethal injections ...
AP Worldstream;  January 3, 2008 ;     528 words ... ... country, will expand the use of lethal injections instead of gunshots for death ... carry most executions, now use lethal injections, the China Daily quoted Jiang ... crimes such as fraud. The human rights monitoring group Amnesty International ...

Article: Lethal injections: medicine and ...
The Hastings Center Report;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... medical event or medical procedure." The problem is that lethal injections look an awful lot like medical procedures, what with gurneys ... anesthesia myself, what we needed," he told researchers from Human Rights Watch. Despite the casual approach, the protocol was rapidly ...

Article: US Supreme Court Considers Constitutionality of Lethal ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 7, 2008 ;     372 words ...Human Rights Watch issued the following news release: The US Supreme Court heard ... Jamie Fellner, co-author with Sarah Tofte of So Long as They Die: Lethal Injections in the US. "The idea of a 'humane execution' is a contradiction ...

Article: CHINA ADDS LETHAL INJECTIONS FOR EXECUTIONS WITH ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  January 5, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... launched last April, the London-based human rights watchdog Amnesty International said ... president of the China Society for Human Rights Studies, said. The introduction of ... transplant purposes,'' Robin Munro of Human Rights Watch / Asia said in a telephone interview ...

Article: Judges reexamine lethal injections for convicts; In ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  April 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... described in a friend-of-the-court brief submitted in the Hill case at the Supreme Court by the group Physicians for Human Rights. "If administered improperly, this combination of chemicals would cause an inmate to suffocate, while consciously experiencing ...

Article: Libya says U.S. cannot challenge its bid to chair UN human ...
AP Worldstream;  January 14, 2003 ;     460 words ... ... commission _ which probes human rights abuses _ rotates its chairmanship ... accusations that it violates human rights, saying it is the United ... the electric chair or by lethal injections. Libya will not take lessons in human rights from the United States ...