The Execution Protocol.

Doctor Death, otherwise Mr Fred Leuchter, is so named because he develops and sells sanitised execution equipment to state penitentiaries under the slogan "capital punishment, not capital torture." By medicalising antiquated technology, Leuchter claims to have abolished execution "glitches" such as shot men bleeding to death; hanged and gassed men slowly suffocating; smoke, sparks, and cooked flesh in the electric chair; and 47 minutes to insert an intravenous line for a lethal injection. Leuchter complains that he was forced into his "humane task" by doctors, who are both "afraid of the issue" and "think backwards," by being governed solely by the injunction to save life. …