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unusual facts about lethal injection



Dexter Lee Vinson

Dexter Lee Vinson was an inmate at the Greensville Correctional Facility in Jarratt, Virginia who was executed by lethal injection on April 27, 2006.

Gusen concentration camp

In 2009, New York artist Karen Finley installed a sculpture in the courtyard of the crematorium, Open Heart, which commemorates the death of 420 Jewish children over two days in 1945 by lethal injection to the heart, by Nazi doctors.

Reflections on the Guillotine

As a half measure Camus suggested that the option of self-administered lethal injection (a modern equivalent of hemlock in Ancient Greece) would at least be a first step in a more humane direction.

Teresa Lewis

Lewis was executed on September 23, 2010, at 9 p.m. by lethal injection, at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt.

Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr.

In 2004 Bowling sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections along with fellow inmate Ralph Baze on the grounds that execution by lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.


see also

Clarence Allen

Clarence Ray Allen (1930–2006), American prison inmate who was executed by lethal injection

Johnny Leartice Robinson

Final appeals to the United States Supreme Court challenged the process of lethal injection as cruel and unusual punishment.

Pancuronium bromide

In September 2007, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear their first case of whether or not the use of lethal injection does in fact violate the US Constitution's Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.