A Guilty Man. Vince Beiser.
by Beiser, Vince; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 80Institutions. Publisher: Mother Jones, 2005ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Capital punishment | Lethal injection (Execution)DDC classification: 050 Summary: "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."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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."
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