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Death row inmate facing rare execution fights back — "No excuse for what I did"

For the first time in more than 200 years, Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman on death row. Christa Gail Pike’s case ...
WHIO

Tennessee executes Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection for killing college student in 1988

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State University ...
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‘Lethal Injection Is Based on the Illusion of Science’: An Interview with Law Professor Corinna Barrett Lain

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book “Secrets of the Killing State,” which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, a ...
Independent Florida Alligator

Cruel and unusual? Florida executions face legal scrutiny over lethal injection

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...