Nancy E. Millar

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    The U.S. Supreme Court is about to re-evaluate how some states carry out lethal injections.

The U.S. Supreme Court is about to re-evaluate how some states carry out lethal injections.

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Next month, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case which challenges Oklahoma’s use of “liquid fire” in executions. The drug – potassium chloride – is one of a cocktail of drugs currently used in some states to carry out death sentences, a cocktail that has led to botched executions. Nancy E. Millar comments on the upcoming case, […]

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    Arizona’s botched execution of Joseph Wood violated the Eighth Amendment and highlighted the U.S. lethal-injection problem—dwindling drug supplies and too much secrecy

Arizona’s botched execution of Joseph Wood violated the Eighth Amendment and highlighted the U.S. lethal-injection problem—dwindling drug supplies and too much secrecy

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Last week saw the controversial execution in Arizona of Joseph Wood by lethal injection. Nancy E. Millar argues that the procedure, which lasted for two hours, illustrates the major problems with the way that executions are now carried out in the U.S. She writes that the growing reluctance of pharmaceutical companies to provide the required drugs, in combination with […]

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