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| Firing squad might replace lethal injection |
| By health24.com |
| Published: 04/02/2015 |
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With the American Pharmacists Association taking a stance on lethal injection at the end on March, the American medical community is now united in its opposition to playing any role in capital punishment killings. That could make it increasingly difficult for the American corrections departments to obtain the already scarce drugs for lethal injections and prompt states where death penalty is practiced, to return to previously shunned methods like firing squads, gas chambers and electric chairs, people on both sides of the issue said Tuesday. "What happens in the course of an execution can be extremely ugly and excruciatingly painful," said Cheryl Pilate, a Kansas City, Missouri, attorney who has represented two inmates in that state who were executed and another whose death sentence is on hold pending appeals. "Alternative methods tend to make more plain what is actually happening when an execution occurs: It extinguishes a human life," she said. "Frankly, there is no pretty way to do it." Read More. |
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