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PostSubject: US executions like being burned alive, says Supreme Court justice   US executions like being burned alive, says Supreme Court justice Icon_minitimeTue Jun 30, 2015 3:16 am

The death penalty as it is practised in Oklahoma is a "a barbarous method of punishment – the chemical equivalent of being burned alive", a justice of the United States Supreme Court has written in an incendiary dissent to her colleagues' majority decision supporting capital punishment.

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The story goes back to April last year, when the state of Oklahoma attempted to execute a murderer called Clayton Lockett, and botched the attempt so badly that in effect, it tortured him to death for 43 minutes until he had a heart attack.

Like nearly every other American jurisdiction that uses the death penalty, Oklahoma has turned to using lethal injection, a method of killing that is sanitised and medicalised.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-executions-like-being-burned-alive-says-supreme-court-justice-20150630-gi158x
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