The surest and simplest way to make sure that the human error involved in every component of the death penalty process is avoided is simply to end it.
‘It’s problematic’: inventor of US lethal injection reveals death penalty doubts
Dr Jay Chapman sought to develop a more humane method of execution but miscarriages of justice leave him ambivalent about capital punishment
Supreme Court debates challenge to execution drug
Justice Elena Kagan contended that the way states carry out most executions amounts to having prisoners “burned alive from the inside.”