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Article: Lethal injection, revealed
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2007
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THOUGH NEARLY all industrial democracies have abolished the death
penalty, it survives in the United States, in part because the states
where it is legal have sought to make it antiseptic. The era of
public hangings is long over, replaced in America by an impersonal,
well-guarded process that minimizes discomfort for the executioners
and the public. But this decades-long effort to make executions seem
merely clinical - culminating in the rise of lethal injection as the
dominant method of execution - does not mean that prisoners are being
put to death in a humane manner.
Indeed, a new analysis of executions in California and North