ALJAZAM Inside Story July 25, 2014
Penalty, states have muched away from hanging, gas chambers, firing squads, the electric chair toward lethal injection. For supporters of the Death Penalty, introducing a series of drugs to dispatch a convicted killer swept aside constitutional concerns about cruel and unusual punishment. Now a group of states have stepped away from the Death Penalty either by law or in practice. Foreign pharmaceutical producers refuse to sell states the drugs they use to execute prisoners, and medical associations say they dont want their members overseeing the work of killing people. It appears to be getting...