March 10, 2006

The Contradictions of Lethal Injection

By PETER MONAGHAN

Jonathan I. Groner, associate clinical professor of medicine, Ohio State University

Is lethal injection cruel and inhumane? In January the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal to that effect by Clarence Edward Hill, a Florida prisoner sentenced to death for the killing of a police officer in 1982. The procedure — used for most executions in the United States since the penalty was reinstated, in 1977 — will probably be

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