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Federal executions to resume, posing a new test for lethal injection

  • Written by Austin Sarat, Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty and Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
imageThe lethal injection chamber at a California prison.Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear four inmates’ challenge to the specifics of the lethal injection process, federal executions are expected to resume next week. In July 2019, Attorney General William Barr declared an end to a f...

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