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Lethal Injection Painful, Study Suggests; U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Issue
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2006, page 28
by Michael Rigby
Filed under:
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Death Penalty.
Locations:
Florida,
Missouri,
Tennessee,
Texas.
Hundreds of prisoners killed by lethal injectionthe preferred method of execution in 37 states and the federal Bureau of Prisonsmay have suffered agonizing deaths due to a routine failure to administer enough anesthesia, according to a recent study. Reviewing toxicology data from 49 executions, researchers in Virginia ...
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