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Toxic Tinkering ? Lethal-Injection Execution and the Constitution

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That's the title of an article in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine by George J. Annas.  LINK  Here's the introduction of this must-read articles:Michel Foucault opened his 1975 book Discipline and Punish with a particularly gruesome account of a French execution in 1757 that involved tearing the flesh away with hot pincers and applying boiling oil to what remained, followed by drawing and quartering of the body by four horses.1 In the 18th century, the goals of torturing to death were retribution and deterrence by spectacle. Executions slowly moved away from violent torture to methods that were seen as being more humane, such as hanging, shooting by a firing squad, electrocution, and lethal gassing...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).

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