The first inmate put to death by lethal injection in the U.S. was Charles Brooks Jr. on December 7, 1982.
that it is difficult to determine how many executions have been botched"because in many states, the public witnesses only see the final steps, once the prisoner is all hooked up."
That lack of transparency is the reason Death Penalty Action launched a campaign to"pull back the curtains" in Alabama, Bonowitz said. And lethal injections also take a toll on corrections employees, Bonowitz said, especially those taken with the"hands-on process of killing a defenseless human being using a medicalized process they really are not well trained for."
One reason for the higher botch rate in the past decade compared to the 20th century, Sarat said, is because the U.S. entered into"a period of experimentation" with lethal injections.
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