lethal injection

Regardless of your position on the death penalty, I believe that most of us would be horrified by the cruelty and incompetence in a recent case at an Alabama prison, regardless of any sympathy (or the lack thereof) one might have for a t

With right-to-die legislation in its fledgling stages in the United States, the bioethics surrounding assisted suicide are in play as they haven’t been in the past.

I've written before about what happens when prisons use bad science to carry out capital punishment (1). It's not pretty.

I have written before about the intersection of pharmacology and capital punishment, and how the state of Oklahoma massively screwed up an execution.

The death penalty has become a controversial topic in the United States*. A large number of U.S. and European companies do not want their products used in lethal injections, which has sent state governments scrambling for alternatives.

The state of Arkansas just announced that it was able to obtain a drug that would enable lethal injections to proceed. Man, do they need a pharmacology lesson because this is going to be ugly.