Oklahoma prison officials unveiled new execution procedures on Tuesday to replace those used in April when an inmate writhed and moaned before being declared dead 43 minutes after his lethal injection began – a situation that renewed debate over what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
The new guidelines allow the state to keep using midazolam, a sedative used in flawed executions earlier this year in Ohio, Oklahoma and Arizona, although it calls for increasing by five times the dose it gave Clayton Lockett in April.
― Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/19/1345972/-How-to-shoot-and-kill-an-immigrant-Georgia-Tech-student-and-only-pay-a-500-fine
― 龜, Thursday, 20 November 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/why-innocent-people-plead-guilty/
― 龜, Thursday, 20 November 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
good news i think, bipartisan move (at least a step) for criminal justice reform
http://www.crewof42.com/wire/koch-brothers-naacp-unite-on-justice-reform-safe-justice-act/
http://www.thecrimereport.org/archive/2015-06-will-new-bipartisan-criminal-justice-reform-plan-fly
― drash, Saturday, 27 June 2015 00:38 (eight years ago) link
NYC corrections officers' union head arrested, fired, seems to be a thief.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/09/norman-seabrook-nyc-jail-guard-union-boss-with-a-taste-for-luxury-gets-pinched.html
http://www.wnyc.org/story/union-boss-norman-seabrook-held-tight-grip-rikers/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 June 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
East St. Louis mother charged in connection with fire that killed her five children https://t.co/lbYVCNzmdY pic.twitter.com/Low3elL1xY— Robert Cohen (@kodacohen) November 4, 2021
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Saturday, 6 November 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link