The Death Penalty Needs Transparency & Regulation.

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    • Subject Terms:
      CAPITAL punishment; LETHAL injection (Execution); PUNISHMENT
    • Abstract:
      Last month, the Alabama inmate's execution lasted three hours, being cited as the longest recorded lethal injection execution in American history. However, unlike other drugs, in 2019 the FDA announced that the drugs used for lethal injections would henceforth be unregulated by the federal government, making chemical executions even more susceptible to unpredictable outcomes. Lethal injection has been broadly touted as the most humane method since 1977, and since then, there have been 1,370 executions by lethal injection -- now the primary execution method used by 30 states and the U.S. government. [Extracted from the article]
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