Lethal Injections

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781503634510

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Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution by Austin Sarat Pdf

With a history marked by incompetence, political maneuvering, and secrecy, America's "most humane" execution method is anything but. From the beginning of the Republic, this country has struggled to reconcile its use of capital punishment with the Constitution's prohibition of cruel punishment. Death penalty proponents argue both that it is justifiable as a response to particularly heinous crimes, and that it serves to deter others from committing them in the future. However, since the earliest executions, abolitionists have fought against this state-sanctioned killing, arguing, among other things, that the methods of execution have frequently been just as gruesome as the crimes meriting their use. Lethal injection was first introduced in order to quell such objections, but, as Austin Sarat shows in this brief history, its supporters' commitment to painless and humane death has never been certain. This book tells the story of lethal injection's earliest iterations in the United States, starting with New York state's rejection of that execution method almost a century and half ago. Sarat recounts lethal injection's return in the late 1970s, and offers novel and insightful scrutiny of the new drug protocols that went into effect between 2010 and 2020. Drawing on rare data, he makes the case that lethal injections during this time only became more unreliable, inefficient, and more frequently botched. Beyond his stirring narrative history, Sarat mounts a comprehensive condemnation of the state-level maneuvering in response to such mishaps, whereby death penalty states adopted secrecy statutes and adjusted their execution protocols to make it harder to identify and observe lethal injection's flaws. What was once touted as America's most humane execution method is now its most unreliable one. What was once a model of efficiency in the grim business of state killing is now marked by mayhem. The book concludes by critically examining the place of lethal injection, and the death penalty writ large, today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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So Long as They Die by Anonim Pdf

Recommendations. To state and federal corrections agencies - To state legislators and the U.S. Congress. -- I. Development of lethal injection protocols. Oklahoma - Texas - Tennessee - Lethal injection machines - Public access to lethal injection protocols. -- II. Lethal injection drugs. Potassium chloride - Pancuronium bromide - Sodium thiopental - The failure to review protocols. -- III. Lethal injection procedures. Qualifications of execution team - Checking the IV equipment - Level of anesthesia not monitored. -- IV. Physician participation in executions and medical ethics. -- V. Case study: Morales v. Hickman. -- VI. Botched executions. -- VII. International human rights and U.S. constitutional law. International human rights law - U.S. Constitutional law. -- Appendix A: State Execution Methods. -- Acknowledgements.

Author : Matt Weiland,Sean Wilsey
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780062043573

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State by State by Matt Weiland,Sean Wilsey Pdf

Inspired by Depression-era travel guides, an anthology of essays on each of the fifty states, plus Washington, D.C., by some of America’s finest writers. State by State is a panoramic portrait of America and an appreciation of all fifty states (and Washington, D.C.) by fifty-one of the most acclaimed writers in the nation. Anthony Bourdain chases the fumigation truck in Bergen County, New Jersey Dave Eggers tells it straight: Illinois is Number 1 Louise Erdrich loses her bikini top in North Dakota Jonathan Franzen gets waylaid by New York’s publicist . . . and personal attorney . . . and historian . . . and geologist John Hodgman explains why there is no such thing as a “Massachusettsean” Edward P. Jones makes the case: D.C. should be a state! Jhumpa Lahiri declares her reckless love for the Rhode Island coast Rich Moody explores the dark heart of Connecticut’s Merritt Parkway, exit by exit Ann Patchett makes a pilgrimage to the Civil War site at Shiloh, Tennessee William T. Vollman visits a San Francisco S&M club And many more Praise for State by State An NPR Best Book of the Year “The full plumage of American life, in all its riotous glory.” —The New Yorker “Odds are, you’ll fall for every state a little.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Jonathan R. Sorensen,Rocky LeAnn Pilgrim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292713017

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Lethal Injection by Jonathan R. Sorensen,Rocky LeAnn Pilgrim Pdf

Few state issues have attracted as much controversy and national attention as the application of the death penalty in Texas. In the years since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Texas has led the nation in passing death sentences and executing prisoners. The vigor with which Texas has implemented capital punishment has, however, raised more than a few questions. Why has Texas been so fervent in pursuing capital punishment? Has an aggressive death penalty produced any benefits? Have dangerous criminals been deterred? Have rights been trampled in the process and, most importantly, have innocents been executed? These important questions form the core of Lethal Injection: Capital Punishment in Texas during the Modern Era. This book is the first comprehensive empirical study of Texas's system of capital punishment in the modern era. Jon Sorensen and Rocky Pilgrim use a wealth of information gathered from formerly confidential prisoner records and a variety of statistical sources to test and challenge traditional preconceptions concerning racial bias, deterrence, guilt, and the application of capital punishment in this state. The results of their balanced analysis may surprise many who have followed the recent debate on this important issue.

Author : Jon Sorensen,Rocky LeAnn Pilgrim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292756175

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Lethal Injection by Jon Sorensen,Rocky LeAnn Pilgrim Pdf

Few state issues have attracted as much controversy and national attention as the application of the death penalty in Texas. In the years since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Texas has led the nation in passing death sentences and executing prisoners. The vigor with which Texas has implemented capital punishment has, however, raised more than a few questions. Why has Texas been so fervent in pursuing capital punishment? Has an aggressive death penalty produced any benefits? Have dangerous criminals been deterred? Have rights been trampled in the process and, most importantly, have innocents been executed? These important questions form the core of Lethal Injection: Capital Punishment in Texas during the Modern Era. This book is the first comprehensive empirical study of Texas's system of capital punishment in the modern era. Jon Sorensen and Rocky Pilgrim use a wealth of information gathered from formerly confidential prisoner records and a variety of statistical sources to test and challenge traditional preconceptions concerning racial bias, deterrence, guilt, and the application of capital punishment in this state. The results of their balanced analysis may surprise many who have followed the recent debate on this important issue.

Author : Lloyd Billingsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996858148

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Lethal Injections by Lloyd Billingsley Pdf

Canada's Serial Killer Nurse Tells All "I had been killing people using an insulin overdose, okay." That's what registered nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer told her friends, her pastor, and her doctors. On October 5, 2016, in Woodstock, Ontario, she told the police all about it. World War II veteran James Silcox was "the first one to die as a result of what I did." After killing him with an insulin overdose, the nurse went home and played computer games. "The doctor wants you to have your vitamin shot," the nurse told Maurice Granat before administering the insulin overdose that killed him. After giving Helen Matheson her blueberry pie, nurse Wettlaufer overdosed the woman. "After I did it, I got that laughter," she told police, and she laughed when Helen died. Nurse Wettlaufer told Mary Zurawinski the injection was "for pain" but it killed her as intended. And after getting the news, nurse Wettlaufer departed on a Caribbean cruise. As the nurse told police, Gladys Millard took longer to die than some others. "Take your medicine," the registered nurse told Arpad Horvath as she injected the insulin overdose that killed him. Nurse Wettlaufer also told police she killed Maureen Pickering and Helen Young. She told police how, when and why she killed her victims. The nurse told police she attempted to kill at least four others, and that she never "got caught." What would be the serial killer's penalty for inflicting so much death and suffering? Read all about it in Lethal Injections.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:09146932700

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Human Rights Watch: United States, So Long as They Die, Lethal Injections in the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jim Nisbet
Publisher : Black Mask
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Criminals
ISBN : UCSC:32106007916296

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Lethal Injection by Jim Nisbet Pdf

Franklin Royce in an alcoholic prison doctor charged with the odious adminstration of overseeing the difficult and violent capital punishment of a young black male who seems curiously in different to his grisly fate. Dr. Royce becomes convinced that his expertise is brought to bear on the death of an innocent man.

Author : Frank R. Baumgartner,Marty Davidson,Kaneesha R. Johnson,Arvind Krishnamurthy,Colin P. Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190841546

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Deadly Justice by Frank R. Baumgartner,Marty Davidson,Kaneesha R. Johnson,Arvind Krishnamurthy,Colin P. Wilson Pdf

In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the 'worst of the worst.' The same court had rejected the death penalty just four years before in the Furman decision because it found that the penalty had been applied in a capricious and arbitrary manner. The 1976 decision ushered in the 'modern' period of the US death penalty, setting the country on a course to execute over 1,400 inmates in the ensuing years, with over 8,000 individuals currently sentenced to die. Now, forty years after the decision, the eminent political scientist Frank Baumgartner along with a team of younger scholars (Marty Davidson, Kaneesha Johnson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Colin Wilson) have collaborated to assess the empirical record and provide a definitive account of how the death penalty has been implemented. Each chapter addresses a precise empirical question and provides evidence, not opinion, about whether how the modern death penalty has functioned. They decided to write the book after Justice Breyer issued a dissent in a 2015 death penalty case in which he asked for a full briefing on the constitutionality of the death penalty. In particular, they assess the extent to which the modern death penalty has met the aspirations of Gregg or continues to suffer from the flaws that caused its rejection in Furman. To answer this question, they provide the most comprehensive statistical account yet of the workings of the capital punishment system. Authoritative and pithy, the book is intended for both students in a wide variety of fields, researchers studying the topic, and--not least--the Supreme Court itself.

Author : Clifton D. Bryant
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Death
ISBN : 9780761925149

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Handbook of Death and Dying by Clifton D. Bryant Pdf

Review: "More than 100 scholars contributed to this carefully researched, well-organized, informative, and multi-disciplinary source on death studies. Volume 1, "The Presence of Death," examines the cultural, historical, and societal frameworks of death, such as the universal fear of death, spirituality and varioius religions, the legal definition of death, suicide, and capital punishment. Volume 2, "The Response to Death," covers such topics as rites and ceremonies, grief and bereavement, and legal matters after death."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

Author : Leigh B. Bienen
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780810126978

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Murder and Its Consequences by Leigh B. Bienen Pdf

Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.

Author : Barry Krisberg,Susan Marchionna,Christopher Hartney
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483314945

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American Corrections by Barry Krisberg,Susan Marchionna,Christopher Hartney Pdf

American Corrections: Concepts and Controversies, by Barry Krisberg, Susan Marchionna, and Chris Hartney, presents an incisive view of every aspect of corrections (including jails, probation, sentencing, prisons, and parole), prompting students to think critically about the complex issues involved in responding to the current crisis in the U.S. correctional system. Incorporating theory, research, and the most recent available data, the book takes a contemporary and issues-oriented approach as it explores the most interesting and progressive developments in correctional policy and practice. Students will come away with practical knowledge, as well as a framework for thoughtful analysis of a subject that can seem mysterious or impenetrable. In addition, the book covers subjects many corrections texts treat only minimally, including women in corrections, the death penalty, and special populations. Perhaps most importantly, the book offers a point of view on what is plaguing the American correctional system and a realistic look at the solutions that offer real promise.

Author : Perry Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1633938301

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Lethal Injection by Perry Miller Pdf

"You won't want to close your eyes in a hospital ever again." --Harvey Schwartz, author of Never Again A syringe is switched and the patient dies on the operating table. Dr. Gideon Lowell takes it upon himself to help the anesthesiologist, who happens to be his wife. The hospital and the police do not want his help, so Gideon ignores them, and carries out his investigation behind the scenes. He recruits an interesting cast of characters, including a newspaper reporter with a magic wand, a cybersecurity expert who likes to bend the rules, and a somewhat skeptical police detective. Gideon rattles cages and shakes things loose to solve the crime. A tale of murder, revenge and coercion, love and friendship, all told with tongue-in-cheek humor.

Author : Peter Conrad,Valerie Leiter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781417503452

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Health and Health Care as Social Problems by Peter Conrad,Valerie Leiter Pdf

This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness are at least partly socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good and often brings with it serious social problems. The volume is organized into six sections, addressing the medicalization of human problems; the social construction of health problems; social movements; gender; race and class and the provision of health care; and medical accountability. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the depth and richness of a social problems approach to health and medicine, and the critical perspective it brings to our understanding of health and illness in U.S. society.

Author : Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon Hawkins
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052137863X

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Capital Punishment and the American Agenda by Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon Hawkins Pdf

This book redefines the central political and legal issues of the death penalty in the light of the social, political, and moral conditions of the United States in the 1980s. The book, which shows a United States pursuing an active execution policy, is an original and compelling contribution to the discussion of the future of the death penalty.