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Lethal Injection

  1. death penalty
    Texas’s Death-Penalty System Is a Travesty. Joseph Garcia Is Proof.The death penalty in America is marked by its racism and ineptitude. In Texas on Tuesday, a man will be killed in one of its more absurd applications.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  2. Gorsuch’s Arrival at SCOTUS Lethal for Arkansas Death-Row InmatesThe new Justice was the deciding vote that allowed Arkansas’s breakneck schedule of lethal injections to proceed.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas’s Execution SpreeThe state will appeal the ruling, but may not be able to get its controversial execution schedule back on track.
    By Chas Danner
  4. Virginia Votes for Electric Chair As Last ResortGoing medieval to clear the backlog. 
    By Samuel Lieberman
  5. capital punishment
    Oklahoma Attorney General Asks to Stay All Executions After Glossip Drug Mix-upHe wants to investigate why two lethal-injection drugs were swapped.
    By Jonah Shepp
  6. the law
    SCOTUS: Death-Row Inmates Must Pick Their PoisonIn an explosive 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court upholds Oklahoma’s lethal-injection protocol. And Breyer invites a constitutional challenge to the death penalty.
    By Cristian Farias
  7. Executions to Resume in Oklahoma, Despite Questions About Lethal-Injection DrugFollowing the botched execution of Clayton Lockett.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  8. cruel and unusual punishment
    Arizona Execution Lasts 2 Hours, Inmate Was Reportedly ‘Gasping and Snorting’ Though state officials insist he was just snoring.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  9. death penalty
    Tennessee Brings Back the Electric ChairIn case lethal injections become unavailable.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  10. Photos: A Haunting Look at America’s Execution ChambersEven states that haven’t put anyone to death for decades tend to have a facility for doing so.
    By Jen Kirby
  11. cruel and unusual punishment
    Oklahoma Delays Execution for 6 Months After Botched Lethal InjectionCharles Warner was scheduled to be executed hours after Clayton Lockett.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  12. cruel and unusual punishment
    Panel Calls for One-Drug Lethal InjectionsUnlike the three used in last week’s botched execution.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  13. death penalty
    Botched Death Shows Problems of Lethal InjectionThe botched death of an Oklahoma inmate reveals our failed attempt to make capital punishment less abhorrent.
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
  14. justice
    Did California Try to Rush an Execution Before Its Sodium Thiopental Expired?It certainly looks like it.
    By Nitasha Tiku