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DPIC director assails our "thoroughly modern death penalty"

By Douglas A. Berman

Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, has this notable commentary on a blog from The Hill publication.  The piece is headlined "A thoroughly modern death penalty," and here is how it starts: On March 10, Ohio carried out an execution using a method that had never been tried before in the U.S. ? a continuous dose of the barbiturate pentobarbital was administered until death occurred for Johnnie Baston.  Coincidentally, in an unrelated event, Ohio's electric chair was relegated to a museum, displayed along with artifacts from the Ku Klux Klan and a cage used to house mental patients. Although the museum pieces were clearly meant to show the dark side of Ohio's discredited past, the newest lethal-injection method has been viewed as cutting-edge technology in the business of capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 18, 2011 (boomark / email).