Tag: capital punishment
When Alabama killed Jimi Barber
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After a series of botched executions, Alabama recently managed to execute a prisoner without incident. What does that mean for the future of capital punishment in the state?
First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
A Killing Without Incident
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The Case Against the Death Penalty
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Question of the Week
What role should sports play in society, and/or what’s your assessment of the role they play in ours? Feel free to comment on professional, recreational, or youth sports; on team, individual, or extreme sports; on playing,
The Lawsuit Challenging the Humanity of Lethal Injection
Whether killing a person via intravenous poisoning qualifies as cruel and unusual remains, for the moment, an open question. Beginning in late February, the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma heard testimony at the trial of Glossip v. Chandler, an eight-year-old lawsuit filed on behalf of a group of death-row inmates that seeks to prove that Oklahoma’s current lethal-injection recipe—500 milligrams of midazolam, followed by 100 milligrams of vecuronium bromide, followed by 240 mEq potassium