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Fordham Urban Law Journal articles from June 2008
A bimonthly legal book published by the law school at Fordham University. Each issue focuses on a single topic, and publishes original research, critical pieces, and long-form essays related to that topic.
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Fordham Urban Law Journal archives from June 2008
In the eye of the storm: a judge's experience in lethal-injection litigation.(The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science)
June 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION
The case of Morales v. Tilton, (1) which challenges the constitutionality of California's lethal-injection protocol for executions, is unique among the many thousands of disputes over which I have presided in more than...
Challenges facing society in the implementation of the death penalty.(The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science)
June 1, 2008... Recent legal challenges to the commonly-used method of lethal injection have raised the question of how much pain is considered too much under the U.S. Constitution. While the Constitution does not mandate a pain-free death, the implementation...
Methods of execution and their effect on the use of the death penalty in the United States.(The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science)
June 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION
The legal controversy surrounding lethal injections as a method of execution has profoundly affected the use of the death penalty in the United States in recent years. Unlike previous attacks on various methods of executions,...
Anesthetizing the public conscience: lethal injection and animal euthanasia.(The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science)
June 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION
In the late 1970s, when Texas was considering whether to adopt Oklahoma's three-drug lethal injection formula for the execution of prisoners, Dr. Ralph Gray, the doctor in charge of medical care in Texas prisons, consulted...
Anomalies: ritual and language in lethal injection regulations.(The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science)
June 1, 2008... The state lethal injection protocols do not regulate lethal injections, but instead describe hypothetical rituals meant to reassure the reader--whomever that might be--that a controlled and orderly process, in accordance with the rule of law,...
The hippocratic paradox: the role of the medical profession in capital punishment in the United States.(The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science)
June 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION
Although the outcome may be death, the act of the physician may be solely to provide comfort. In this case, a physician is not acting as a tool of the government; he is acting as a physician whose goals temporarily align with...
Peer-reviewed studies identifying problems in the design and implementation of lethal injection for execution.(The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science)
June 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
Lethal injection was designed and carried out without any research at all. There is no evidence that any literature searches, animal modeling, clinical studies, or investigations of veterinary practice were performed prior to the...
The pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of thiopental as used in lethal injection.(The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science)
June 1, 2008... Thiopental (sometimes called, although inaccurately, Sodium Pentothal) was the most commonly used intravenous anesthetic agent for about fifty years, beginning in the mid-1940s. (1) As states began to discuss and develop protocols for lethal...
Thiopental in lethal injection.(The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science)
June 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION
In the United States, the current protocols for execution by lethal injection call for the administration of the combination of three drugs: the anesthetic thiopental, a barbiturate; (1) the paralyzing agent, pancuronium...
Killing them softly: meditations on a painful punishment of death.(The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science)
June 1, 2008... THE CURRENT CONTROVERSY: A FRAGMENT
Controversy continues to swirl around lethal injection. Opponents emphasize the real risk of ill-trained corrections personnel botching executions and turning capital punishment into official rituals of...