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Reprieve Director, Maya Foa, discusses how for decades, lethal injection has been the lynchpin of the U.S. capital punishment system. By lending the process a mask of medical legitimacy, this method of execution has preserved the pervasive myth of the humane execution, and has helped maintain public and political support for the continued use of the death penalty.Behind the mask, however, lethal injection is just as brutal as the gas chamber or the electric chair. Conducted using experimental drug cocktails administered by untrained prison officials, lethal injection was recently described by one Supreme Court Justice as “the chemical equivalent of being burned at the stake”.
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