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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jan. 11, 2008

Lethal Considerations

Forum Column - By Bryan A. Liang - Efforts to change lethal-injection procedures are simply an attempt to pass the buck to the medical community.

FORUM COLUMN

By Bryan A. Liang
This article appears on Page 6.

      On Jan. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Baze v. Rees, 07-5439, a case that addresses for the first time in a century the constitutionality of a death-penalty method: lethal injection, the favored state means of killing condemned prisoners. Hopefully, the court will come to a conclusion that does not continue to stalemate this issue by trying to put the on...

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