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Oregon Re-Sells Unused Execution Drugs
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2012, page 47
On November 22, 2011, death penalty opponents cheered Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber’s decision to halt the scheduled December 6, 2011 execution of Gary Haugen, and to impose a moratorium on all executions for the duration of his term. Kitzhaber called the death penalty “compromised and inequitable.” [See: PLN, June 2012, ...
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