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Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty
Austin Sarat

There is no humane way to execute criminals


—Al Jazeera

Death by firing squard


—MSNBC

Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty #HumanRights


—Allegra Lab

Botching the 8th Amendment


—Stanford University Press blog

Bad drugs, veins and policy: Oklahoma fits a pattern of botched US executions


—The Guardian

Botched Executions Have Never Swayed Public Opinion. This Time Could Be Different


—New Republic

What botched executions tell us about the death penalty


—Boston Globe

Botched executions since 1890


—Washington Post

Gruesome Spectacles by Austin Sarat


—The Rumpus

Listen: In Evolution of Execution Method, Botched Procedures Remain


—NPR

Lethal Injection Is Pretty Much the Worst Way to Execute People. So Why Do We Use It?


—New York Magazine

Botched Execution in Oklahoma Is Part of a Pattern, Says Amherst Scholar


—The Chronicle of Higher Education

Listen: Faulty Execution Raises Questions Over Lethal Injections


—KQED

How America's Death Penalty Ends


—Politico

Supreme Court decision does not solve the problem of lethal injection


—Boston Globe

SCOTUS Doesn't Care How You Kill A Man


—Politico

Why experts say there's no such thing as 'humane' execution


—CNN

Can Pope Francis Influence Death Penalty Sentencing in the US?


—HuffPost Live

Why Is Obama Agreeing With the NRA?


—Politico

Romell Brown ruling allowing serial execution attempts sets up nightmare scenario: Austin Sarat


—Cleveland.com

A comeback for the death penalty?


—CNN

A comeback for the death penalty?


—CNN

Activists Say Charleston Shooter Dylann Roof Should Not Get the Death Penalty


—USA Today

"I would like the firing squad, please"


—CNN

Trump's New Tone Hides Same Old Falsehoods


—CNN

Our Democracy Is Not A Given


—U.S. News

Is The Firing Squad More Humane Than Lethal Injection?


—FiveThirtyEight

People keep voting in support of the death penalty. So how can we end it


—The Conversation

Stop Executing the Mentally Ill


—U.S. News

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