"The lethal-injection quandary is playing out in a second lawsuit brought
by The Associated Press and other news organizations to challenge five
states that are violating a 2002 federal court mandate that the law
requires every step of execution to be witnessed in behalf of the
public. When the death chamber curtains have been drawn lately in Idaho,
Washington, Montana, Arizona and Nevada, the main insertion of the
lethal injection has already occurred. Some subjects have been seen to
barely move, with suspicions arising about some inhumane trauma taking
place out of sight.
This shortcut is obviously designed to lessen the risk of official
embarrassment if something goes wrong. In the past, bungled injections
have left some subjects writhing in agony on a gurney. The death penalty
is barbaric. These problems are all reminders of why it is folly to
pretend that state execution can ever be made humane."
From editorial, New Your Times, 26th May 2012
The fairy tale is that the executed fall into a peaceful death, like children lured to sleep by their parents
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