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• Ohio man executed by single drug

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Convicted murder Kenneth Biros dies after receiving the powerful anaesthetic thiopental sodium Ohio today become the first state in America to put to death a prisoner using a single drug lethal injection in a new technique that lawyers and campaigners have criticised as human experimentation. Kenneth Biros was ...
  19 hours ago

• Shut down Ohios machinery of death | Karen Torley

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Ohio has killed Kenneth Biros, a man I have written to for many years. How can a civilised country do this in the name of justice? After a botched attempt to execute a prisoner in the US state of Ohio in September caused international outrage, you might have thought Ohio would hesitate before pressing ahead with ...
  19 hours ago

• New Execution Method used in USA

  
  G2 Visual Design Salad and Other Healthy Appetizers — Authority: 142
  Good or Bad News?Really pleased that we are living in a new kinder gentler USAOhio prison officials executed a death row inmate, Kenneth Biros, Tuesday with a one-drug intravenous lethal injection, a method never before used on a human.The new method, which involved a large dose of anesthetic, akin to how animals are ...
  19 hours ago

• New Execution Method Is Used in Ohio

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Kenneth Biros was executed Tuesday morning in Ohio.
  20 hours ago

• U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee Examines Habeas Restrictions in Capital Cases

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Right now the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is holding a hearing to, " Consider the Impact of Federal Habeas Corpus Limitations on Death Penalty Appeals ."  Unfortunately, its not being webcast.  The Subcommittee is chaired by Jerrold Nadler of New York. ...
  20 hours ago

• Biros Executed in Ohio Using 1-Drug Lethal Injection

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  The initial AP report is, " Ohio executes inmate with 1-drug lethal injection ." Ohio has executed a convicted killer through thefirst U.S. lethal injection using a single drug, a longer butsupposedly less painful method than previous executions with threedrugs. Kenneth Biros (BY-rohs) waspronounced dead at 11:47 ...
  21 hours ago

• New Execution Method Is Used in Ohio

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 163
  A convicted killer, Kenneth Biros, was put to death by receiving a single shot, similar to the one used to euthanize animals.
  22 hours ago

• Beard v. Kindler Decided

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  The Supreme Court has ruled in the unusual Pennsylvania case.  The AP reports, " Supreme Court tells lower courts to reconsider death penalty for Kindler ," via the Los Angeles Times. The Supreme Court will let lower courts consider reinstating a deathsentence for a convicted murderer who twice escaped from prison ...
  22 hours ago

• Franklin Zimring on the American Law Institutes New Capital Punishment Position

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Zimrings commentary for the National Law Journal is, " Pulling the plug on capital punishment ."  He is the William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Not all the important turning points in Americas epic struggle overthe death penalty get noticed ...
  23 hours ago

• Michigan and the Death Penalty

  
  Flint Expatriates — Authority: 131
  Death penalty statutes in the United States (Click on map to enlarge) Color key: No current death penalty statute Statute or method declared unconstitutional Not applied since 1976 Has performed execution since 1976 I was talking to a native Californian the other day about ...
  23 hours ago

• Supreme Court Wont Block 1st US 1-Drug Execution

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Thats the breaking news bulletin from the Associated Press.  Its written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins and datelined Lucasville, Ohio.  LINK The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block theexecution of an Ohio condemned killer who would become the first personin the U.S. to die by lethal injection with a single drug ...
  23 hours ago

• “We See and Understand Things Not as They are But as We are”

  
  Authspot — Authority: 560
  “We see and understand things not as they are but as we are” This claim shows the great influence of our beliefs and experiences on our view of the world. This is because our beliefs and experiences, the things that make us who we are, are an influence on our ways of knowing. Since our ways of knowing are the ways ...
  1 day ago

• Ed Pilkington on Ohio planning to execute a prisoner with experimental drug

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Ed Pilkington on Ohio planning to execute a prisoner with an experimental drug Ed Pilkington
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• The Politics of the Body

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 505
  ( source ) (Thanks to Eva Declercq for unwittingly suggesting this topic). The politics of the body , or “ body politics ”, is a concept, originally used by early feminists I believe, to describe government policies and laws and cultural or social practices used by society to regulate and control the human ...
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• 1982: Suriname’s “December murders”

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 424
  This was the date in 1982 of the “December murders” ( “Decembermoorden” ), when 15 opponents of Suriname’s military dictatorship were shot at Fort Zeelandia. (The 15 people shot each have an entry on the Dutch Wikipedia, accessible through its Decembermoorden entry .) Though the killings weren’t ...
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• Ohio killer awaits fate as 1st execution on 1 drug

  
  TexasFred — Authority: 513
  Ohio killer awaits fate as 1st execution on 1 drug COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A condemned killer scheduled to become the first person in the U.S. put to death with a single drug – in an execution that could take longer than previous procedures – arrived Monday at the Ohio death house.Kenneth Biros, 51, was [...]
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• M Ravi speaks on death penalty

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 572
  The Singapore Democratic Party speaks to Mr M Ravi, human rights lawyer, who has been involved in defending persons on death row for more than five years now. Mr Ravi is currently representing Mr Yong Vui Kong, a 21-year old Malaysian sentenced to hang for drug trafficking.Related Posts Calling for an end to the ...
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• Kentucky To Keep Three-Drug Lethal Injection

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  AP reports, " Ky. to stick with 3-drug execution protocol ," via Kentucky.com.  The report is by Brett Barroquere. Kentucky plans to keep using a three-drugcocktail on death row inmates and wont use Ohios novel one-drugoverdose method, as officials work through legal hurdles so executionscan resume in the state. ...
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• An American way of death

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Ohios new method would supplant a three-drug cocktail that has become the main way of putting prisoners to death since it was introduced in the late 1970s. An intravenous drip is inserted into the prisoners arm through which sodium thiopental, an anaesthetic, is first introduced to put the prisoner to sleep; then ...
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• Lawyers fight to halt Ohio execution experiment

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Lethal injection involves anaesthetic used on pets • Change of method follows previous failures in state Lawyers acting for a prisoner on death row in Ohio were scrambling to delay his scheduled execution tomorrow morning using a new method of lethal injection that is widely used to put down pets. The procedure ...
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