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Lethal Gas Execution Cruel and Unusual
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1995
by Dale Gardner
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1995, page 7
Derek Humphry, President of the Hemlock Society, and Judge Marilyn Hall Patel have differing views on the virtues of inhaling lethal gas. Humphry, in his how-to-suicide-it manual Final Exit, recommends the use of potassium cyanide as a quick and "humane", although not entirely peaceful, way of dying with dignity, which ...
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Toxic Fumes/Chemicals,
Eighth Amendment,
Death Penalty.
Location:
California.
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