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Why the guillotine may be less cruel than execution by slow poisoning

  • Written by Janine Lanza, Associate Professor of History, Wayne State University
Could using the guillotine be more humane than execution by lethal injection?AlexLMX/Shutterstock

Concerns about the drugs used for executions are being raised again after the federal government announced it will once again execute inmates convicted of capital crimes almost 16 years after the last execution was carried out.

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