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New Lethal Injection Scholarship

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Ty Alper's, "The Truth about Physician Participation in Lethal Injection Executions," is at SSRN and soon to be published in the North Carolina Law Review.  Alper is associate director of UC Berkeley Law School's Death Penalty Clinic.  Here's the abstract:This Article addresses an aspect of Baze v. Rees (the Court?s recent lethal injection decision out of Kentucky) that has received little attention but threatens to have a significant impact on the way in which the holding of Baze is implemented in other states. In short, several of the Justices? opinions in Baze were premised on the faulty notion that doctors cannot and will not participate in executions. As a result, several Justices appeared to rule out the feasibility of a remedy requiring physician participation, and openly expressed suspicion of the motives of lawyers who would propose such a remedy...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 06, 2009 (boomark / email).