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This alphabetical list features notable cases up to March 2024, and only those where lethal injection can be reliably sourced to be the method of execution. The criterion for notability is either an article on the individual, or the crime they were executed for, in the English Wikipedia.
The execution of Dennis McGuire occurred on January 16, 2014, at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, in what was considered to be a botched execution. McGuire was executed via lethal injection using a new combination of untried and untested drugs: midazolam and hydromorphone .
Nov 28, 2023 · By Christopher Hickey, Dakin Andone and Will Mullery, CNN. Published November 28, 2023. Since its advent more than 40 years ago, lethal injection has become by far the most common method of ...
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Mar 19, 1993 · lethal injection. 7 movies. Movies. Sort. Dead Man Walking. December 29, 1995. A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple. Point of No Return. March 19, 1993.
Today, five states authorize lethal gas as a method of execution, but all have lethal injection as an alternative method. A federal court in California found this method to be cruel and unusual punishment. For execution by this method, the condemned person is strapped to a chair in an airtight chamber. Below the chair rests a pail of sulfuric acid.
Mar 5, 2018 · BBC. Life and Death Row: How the lethal injection kills. The lethal injection has been the primary means of executing condemned Americans for decades - but its use remains controversial....
