Beiser, Vince,
A Guilty Man. Vince Beiser. - Mother Jones, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 80, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: A Guilty Man, Sept./Oct. 2005; pp. 34-39.
"In courts across the country, death-penalty opponents are attacking lethal injection as a violation of the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Citing new evidence suggesting that the method may actually cause excruciating, if invisible, pain, they have succeeded in at least stalling several executions. Meanwhile, thanks largely to the doubts raised by the many death-row inmates exonerated by DNA evidence, the overall number of executions has fallen by almost half in recent years, from 98 in 2000 to 59 last year [2004]." (MOTHER JONES) This article discusses Bill Wiseman's guilt for writing "the bill that made Oklahoma the first jurisdiction in the world to adopt lethal injection as a means of execution....By introducing lethal injections, he had hoped to at least make executions more humane. But at the same time, he now believes, he also helped make them more common, by making it easier for squeamish judges and juries to hand down the ultimate punishment."
1522-3256;
Capital punishment
Lethal injection (Execution)
AC1.S5
050
A Guilty Man. Vince Beiser. - Mother Jones, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 80, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: A Guilty Man, Sept./Oct. 2005; pp. 34-39.
"In courts across the country, death-penalty opponents are attacking lethal injection as a violation of the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Citing new evidence suggesting that the method may actually cause excruciating, if invisible, pain, they have succeeded in at least stalling several executions. Meanwhile, thanks largely to the doubts raised by the many death-row inmates exonerated by DNA evidence, the overall number of executions has fallen by almost half in recent years, from 98 in 2000 to 59 last year [2004]." (MOTHER JONES) This article discusses Bill Wiseman's guilt for writing "the bill that made Oklahoma the first jurisdiction in the world to adopt lethal injection as a means of execution....By introducing lethal injections, he had hoped to at least make executions more humane. But at the same time, he now believes, he also helped make them more common, by making it easier for squeamish judges and juries to hand down the ultimate punishment."
1522-3256;
Capital punishment
Lethal injection (Execution)
AC1.S5
050