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In an opinion dissenting from a Supreme Court decision to deny review in a death penalty
case, Supreme CourtJusticeHarryBlackmunfamouslywrote,“Fromthis day forward, I no …

The United States continues to enthusiastically practice capital punishment. Since 1976,
nearly 800 people have been executed, including 35 mentally retarded individuals and 19 …

LEGAL EXECUTION BY LETHAL INJECTION HAS MADE NA-tional headlines during the
past 2 years because pris-oners have argued that it poses an unnecessary risk of pain as …

The firing squad execution of Gary Gilmore in January 1977 was the first in the United States
in more than a decade; a decadeduring which debate about the constitutionality, cruelty, and …

The conservative political mood in the United States and the apparent failure of law-
enforcement agencies to curb violent crime have resulted in a resurgence of support for the …

Of the thirty-seven US jurisdictions that authorize the use of capital punishment, all but one
use lethal injection as an execution method.'Nearly every jurisdiction's lethal injection …

Raymond Landry was sentenced to death in Texas.'The method of execution was lethal
injection. 2 After forty minutes of needle probing, the catheter was inserted into his vein. 3"[S] …

Foreword On January 14, 2008, the Journal hosted a videotaped roundtable discussion of
the issues raised by Baze v. Rees, currently before the Supreme Court, that asks whether …

In the United States there are at least ten states which permit execution by lethal injection.
Prison doctors do not themselves administer the lethal injection, but they do supervise the …