"Concern over pending Mo. executions" by Jim Salter | Associated Press, August 16, 2013
ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Supreme Court’s decision to move ahead with two executions was questioned Thursday by some death penalty observers and opponents, in part over concern about Missouri’s proposed use of a drug that remains unproven in lethal injections and which gained infamy in the 2009 death of pop star Michael Jackson....
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‘‘This is an experiment with a human subject,’’ said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington.
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For decades, Missouri and the nearly three dozen other states with the death penalty used a three-drug cocktail for executions. Makers of those drugs now prohibit their use in lethal injection....
‘‘From my own point of view a firing squad is a lot safer, a lot quicker, and a lot less painful,’’ said Dr. Jonathan Groner, a professor of clinical surgery at the Ohio State University College of Medicine who has studied lethal injection extensively.
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