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Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution (Paperback)
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Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution (Paperback)
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With a history marked by incompetence, political maneuvering, and
secrecy, America's "most humane" execution method is anything but.
From the beginning of the Republic, this country has struggled to
reconcile its use of capital punishment with the Constitution's
prohibition of cruel punishment. Death penalty proponents argue
both that it is justifiable as a response to particularly heinous
crimes, and that it serves to deter others from committing them in
the future. However, since the earliest executions, abolitionists
have fought against this state-sanctioned killing, arguing, among
other things, that the methods of execution have frequently been
just as gruesome as the crimes meriting their use. Lethal injection
was first introduced in order to quell such objections, but, as
Austin Sarat shows in this brief history, its supporters'
commitment to painless and humane death has never been certain.
This book tells the story of lethal injection's earliest iterations
in the United States, starting with New York state's rejection of
that execution method almost a century and half ago. Sarat recounts
lethal injection's return in the late 1970s, and offers novel and
insightful scrutiny of the new drug protocols that went into effect
between 2010 and 2020. Drawing on rare data, he makes the case that
lethal injections during this time only became more unreliable,
inefficient, and more frequently botched. Beyond his stirring
narrative history, Sarat mounts a comprehensive condemnation of the
state-level maneuvering in response to such mishaps, whereby death
penalty states adopted secrecy statutes and adjusted their
execution protocols to make it harder to identify and observe
lethal injection's flaws. What was once touted as America's most
humane execution method is now its most unreliable one. What was
once a model of efficiency in the grim business of state killing is
now marked by mayhem. The book concludes by critically examining
the place of lethal injection, and the death penalty writ large,
today.
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