LATEST COVEAGE

 

"Ohio can't find doctors to offer execution advice," Associated Press, Oct. 27, 2009

 

"Lethal Injection Draws Scrutiny in Some States," The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 15, 2009

 

"Ohio's botched executions: Lethal injection proves, in several cases, to cross the line into cruel and unusual punishment," LA Times, Oct. 14, 2009

 

"Md. Panel Slows Down Draft of Execution Rules," Washington Post, Oct. 12, 2009

 

"Execution Methods Examined: Ohio's Review After Botched Injection May Have Wide Impact," Washington Post, Oct. 12, 2009

 

"Ruling Puts State Closer to Resuming Executions," The Arizona Republic, Oct. 9, 2009

 

"In Aftermath of Failed Execution, Ohio Governor Orders Postponement of 2 Others,", New York Times, Oct. 6, 2009.

 

"Botched Executions," Editorial, New York Times, Oct. 3, 2009

 

"Dead Man Talking: Survivor of Ohio's latest botched execution reveals breathtaking incompetence," Cleveland Scene, Sept. 30, 2009

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

 

Ty Alper, "The Truth about Physician Participation in Lethal Injection Executions," 88 N.C. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming Nov. 2009).

 

Eric Berger, Lethal Injection and the Problem of Constitutional Remedies, 27 Yale Law & Policy Review, No. 2, 2009 (December 2008),. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1311909

 

Nadia N. Sawicki, Doctors, Discipline and the Death Penalty: Professional Implications of Safe Harbor Statutes, 27 Yale Law and Policy Review, Fall 2008.

 

Deborah W. Denno, The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science, 35 Fordham Urban L J. 701, June 2008.

 

Jeremy Fogel, In the Eye of the Storm: A Judge's Experience In Lethal Injection Litigation, 35 Fordham Urban L J. 735, June 2008.

 

Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr., Challenges Facing Society in the Implementation of the Death Penalty, 35 Fordham Urban L J. 763, June 2008.

 

Richard C. Dieter, Methods of Execution and Their Effect on the Use of the Death Penalty in the United States, 35 Fordham Urban L J. 789, June 2008.

 

Ty Alper, Anesthetizing the Public Conscience: Lethal Injection and Animal Euthanasia, 35 Fordham Urb. L. J. 817 (2008).

 

Leigh B. Bienen, Anomalies: Ritual and Language in Lethal Injection Regulations, 35 Fordham Urban L J. 857, June 2008.

 

Jonathan I. Groner M.D., The Hippocratic Paradox: The Role of the Medical Profession in Capital Punishment in the United States, 35 Fordham Urban L J. 883, June 2008.

 

Mark Dershwitz, M.D., Ph.D. & Thomas K. Henthorn, M.D., The Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Thiopental as Used in Lethal Injection For Execution, 35 Fordham Urban L J. 931, June 2008.

 

Susi Vassallo, M.D. , Thiopental In Lethal Injection, 35 Fordham Urban L J. 857, June 2008.

 

Robert Blecker, Killing them Softly: Mediations On A Painful Punishment of Death, 35 Fordham Urban L J. 869, June 2008.

 

Ty Alper, What Do Lawyers Know About Lethal Injection?, 1 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. (online), (March 3, 2008).

 

Douglas A. Berman & Alison J. Nathan, Baze-D and Confused: What's The Deal With Lethal Injection?, 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra.

 

Seema Shah, "How Lethal Injection Constitutes Impermissible Research on Prisoners", American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Summer 2008).

 

Deborah W. Denno, The Lethal Injection Quandary: How Medicine Has Dismantled the Death Penalty, 76 Fordham Law Review 49-128 (2007).

 

Ellen Kreitzberg & David Richter, But Can It Be Fixed? A Look at Constitutional Challenges to Lethal Injection, 41 Santa Clara Law Review 445 (2007).

 

Ellyde Roko, Executioner Identities: Toward Recognizing a Right to Know Who is Hiding Beneath the Hood, 75 FORDHAM L. Rev. 2791 (2007)

 

Ty Alper, Lethal Incompetence: Lethal Injection Litigation is Exposing More Than Torturous Executions, THE CHAMPION, Sept/Oct. 2006

 

Deborah W. Denno, When Legislators Delegate Death: The Troubling Paradox Behind State Uses of Electrocution and Lethal Injection and What it Says About Us, 63 Ohio St. L.J. 63 (2002).

REPORTS

 

So Long as They Die, Lethal Injection in the United States, Human Rights Watch, June 2006