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Posted Apr 20, 2020, 12:16 pm
Hannah Foote
/Cronkite News
Public health officials who use certain “execution drugs” to treat COVID-19 patients face competition from states that use those drugs to end lives rather than save them. ... Read more»
Posted Oct 18, 2016, 11:41 am
Jon Herskovitz
/Reuters
A federal judge in Phoenix will hear arguments this week about resuming executions in Arizona, where a 2014 lethal injection that took nearly two hours raised questions about the state's death chamber protocols and the chemicals it uses to kill inmates.... Read more»
Posted Jun 24, 2016, 7:27 pm
Ian Simpson
/Reuters
Arizona has run out of execution drugs, including a sedative implicated in botched lethal injections, according to a filing on Friday in a court case challenging the U.S. state's execution methods. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 4, 2015, 1:24 pm
Annie Waldman
/ProPublica
The Supreme Court is reviewing lethal injection for the first time in seven years. Here’s what it means for the death penalty. ... Read more»