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The Needle and the Damage Done

Date: February 8, 2007

Author: Elizabeth Weil

QUOTE: legal challenges to lethal-injection procedures are taking place in virtually every state with an active death penalty. As a result of those cases, about 12 of the 38 states that have the death penalty...Until these cases, contesting the constitutionality of lethal injection seemed like little more than a delaying tactic — how could a method of execution be more benign than lying on a gurney and drifting to sleep? — but little was known about how lethal-injection procedures actually worked.

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Key People:

• Prof. Robert Blecker Esq.
• Timothy "Tim" J. McVeigh
• Gov. John "Jeb" Bush
• Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia
• Prof. Richard C. Dieter Esq.

Key Organizations:

• American Medical Association (AMA)
• American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)
• Death Penalty Information Center
• New York Times Company

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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