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2008

"Judge Orders Ohio to Alter Its Method of Execution", The New York Times, June 11, 2008

 

"Executioners Had Trouble", Atlanta Journal Constitution, June 4, 2008

 

"Late Appeal Spares Texas Inmate", Houston Chronicle, June 4, 2008

 

"Lethal Injection Cocktail Can Be Used Despite Risk of Pain", Nursing Spectrum, June 2, 2008

 

"A More Humane Death for a Horse?" Column, Star Telegram, May 21, 2008

 

"Fearing Too Much Justice", National Law Journal, May 12, 2008

 

"How The Supreme Court's Lethal Injection Ruling Elevates Appearance Over Reality", FindLaw, April 21, 2008

 

"Capital Punishment Common Sense", Opinion, Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2008

 

"A Supreme Muddle", Opinion, Charlotte Observer, April 18, 2008

 

"Capital Injustice", Opinion, Boston Globe, April 18, 2008

 

"Executions to Resume After High Court OK's Lethal Injection", Associated Press, April 17, 2008


"Supreme Court Finds Lethal Injection A Humane Means of Execution", Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2008

 

"Challenges Remain for Lethal Injection", New York Times, April 17, 2008

 

"Justices Uphold Lethal Injection Procedure", Washington Post, April 17, 2008

 

"Supreme Court Allows Lethal Injection for Executions", New York Times, April 17, 2008

 

"High Court Upholds Lethal Injection", NPR, April 17, 2008

 

"How Justices Arrived At Death Penalty Ruling", USA Today, April 17, 2008

 

"Supreme Court Upholds Lethal Injections", Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2008

 

"Litigation Assured in Wake of Decision", The New York Times, April 16, 2008

 

"Supreme Court Upholds Use of Lethal Injection", Associated Press, April 16, 2008

 

"In A Reversal, Justice Stevens Calls the Death Penalty 'Anachronistic'", Chicago Tribune, April 16, 2008

 

"Animal Vets Can't Use Execution Drug", Associated Press, April 4, 2008

 

"VA Executions Are Put on Hold", Washington Post, April 1, 2008

 

"US Marks 6 Months With No Executions", AFP, March 28, 2008

 

"Veterinarians Opine on Lethal Injection Methods", DMV News Magazine, March 25, 2008

 

"Nebraska Keeps Death Penalty Without Execution Method", CBC News, March 25, 2008

 

"Execution Nurse Had Criminal Past", St. Louis Post Dispatch, January 12, 2008

 

"Making Executions More Humane", Austin-American Statesman, January 9, 2007

 

"Supreme Court Takes Up Lethal Injection", National Public Radio, January 7, 2007

 

"Supreme Court Takes Up Lethal Injection Battle", LA Times, January 7, 2007

 

"Lethal Injection: Executions Should Not Cause Pain", Washington Post, January 6, 2007

 

"States Hesitate to Lead Change on Lethal Injection", The New York Times, January 3, 2007

 

"Who Would Antonin Scalia Torture?", Salon.com, January 1, 2008


Amnesty International Online Web Chat on Lethal Injection, December 7, 2007

 

2007

 

“Under the Knife Yet Wide Awake,” USA Today, December 4, 2007

 

“The Long Green Mile of the Death Penalty,” Star-Telegram, EDITORIAL, December 2, 2007

 

November

 

“Unfit to Execute: States know that their lethal injection procedure may cause excruciating pain, yet they defend it anyway,” Los Angeles Times, November 26, 2007

 

“Lethal Injection to Get Supreme Test: Doubts of Humaneness Bring Case to High Court,” Washington Post, November 23, 2007

 

“As court reviews Kentucky case, other states hold off on executions,” Catholic News Service, November 16, 2007

 

"Interventions May Continue Until Baze Case Decided", Tallahassee Democrat, November 16, 2007

 

"Doctor Barred by Missouri Helps in Federal Executions", L.A Times, November 15, 2007

 

"Die Hardest", Slate Magazine, November 12, 2007

 

“Injection of Reflection,” Newsweek, November 10, 2007

 

“It’s Not Whether to Kill, but How,” New York Times November 4, 2007

 

"The Last Lethal Injection,” Washington Post, November 1, 2007

 

October

 

“Stay of Execution is Granted for Mississippi Murderer,” Washington Post, October 31, 2007

 

“Executions likely on hold until high-court ruling,” USA Today, October 31, 2007

 

“Study: Lethal Injection Drugs sometimes fail,” Associated Press, October 26, 2007

 

“Deciphering the State of the Death Penalty," New York Times, October 19, 2007

 

"A Pivotal Review For The Death Penalty", San Jose Mercury News, October 14, 2007

 

“Tinkering with death,” Boston Globe, Op-Ed, October 12, 2007

 

“Texas Ruling Signals Halt to Executions Indefinitely,” New York Times, October 3, 2007

 

September

 

“Lethal Injection Under Scrutiny,” Associated Press, September 29, 2007

 

“Texas Planning New Execution Despite Ruling,” New York Times, September 29, 2007

 

"Rare Supreme Court Stay Halts a Texas Execution,” New York Times, September 28, 2007

 

"Supreme Court Justices to Take Up Lethal Injection: High Court Ruling Could Provide Road Map for California", San Jose Mercury News, September 26, 2007

 

"Four Key Questions In Lawsuit on Lethal Injection", San Jose Mercury News, September 26, 2007

 

“Justices to decide Kentucky cases challenging lethal injection,” Associated Press, September 25, 2007

 

“Court to Hear New Challenge to Lethal Injection,” Los Angeles Times, September 25, 2007

 

“Justices to Enter the Debate over Lethal Injection,” New York Times, September 25, 2007

 

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