The state of Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith on January 25, 2024 using an experimental method, nitrogen asphyxiation. This prisoner was sentenced to death for murdering Elizabeth Sennett in the late 1980s. The use of this method for execution, carried [...]
Obtaining organs for transplantation from political prisoners has been fundamental to maintain donor organ levels in China for a substantial period of time. Now, an independent British tribunal has claimed to have new evidence of these facts in a public [...]
Capital punishment in the United States is socially highly controversial, especially in two areas: participation of healthcare providers in the execution, and obtaining the drugs used in it. Between 1976 — when the death penalty was reinstated — and 2015, [...]
Capital punishment ia a subject with major ethical undertones, widely debated in the United States, is to determine whether or not a physician or experienced medical personnel should be present at executions by lethal injection of persons condemned to capital [...]
A few days ago, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced a ban on the use of their drugs for capital punishment in the United States. This decision was picked up by American newspaper The New York Times, where the company stated that [...]
