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...unbearable, hopeless condition. Subsequently, each case of mercy killing will be reviewed by a lawyer. Something like the Dutch law exists in only one U.S. state, Oregon, but its Death with Dignity Act is less sweeping (see chart). Under its strict rules, doctors there signed only 96 prescriptions for lethal doses of medication from 1998 through 2000. By comparison, physicians already euthanize roughly 4,000 Dutch each year--and it's not even technically legal...
...rope used to hang Roscoe Jackson, who murdered a traveling salesman. Thirty-five years after that spectacle, capital punishment was banned in America. Since its reinstatement in 1976, the death penalty has been sanitized and closeted. The rope in the town square begat Old Sparky, which begat lethal injection, both administered behind tall prison walls. Bringing executions back out into the open--not closed-circuit TV but TV--is a leap most often advocated by those who want to do away with them. They believe that capital punishment would lose the support of a civilized society if people actually...
...Oklahoma state senator, stood clasping his sister's hand in a cramped, brightly lit room at the state prison. Brooks had pushed for legislation allowing crime victims to witness executions, and now he and Leslie were watching Steven Hatch, one of their parents' killers, die by lethal injection. As poison flooded Hatch's veins, Brooks and Leslie re-lived their parents' deaths. Brooks describes it as a healing experience. When Hatch died after seven minutes, Brooks says, "I was happy... Witnessing the execution was an assurance that this is over...
...Brooks is working to give the same sense of closure to survivors of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City and to relatives of the 168 killed in the explosion. The bomber, Timothy McVeigh, is scheduled to die by lethal injection May 16 at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind. With seating for survivors and relatives limited to eight, a victims' group had sought to force the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to beam the execution by closed-circuit TV to an Oklahoma auditorium where they could watch en masse. Some 250 survivors and relatives say they...
...government, have made provisions for at least one family member of a killer's victim to look on, either in person or via a broadcast. With the court-ordered release last year of a videotape of death chamber preparations in Tennessee for Robert Glen Coe right up to the lethal injection, and with clips from the 1999 electrocution in Florida of Allen Lee Davis available on the Internet, executions are beginning to sneak into public view. McVeigh himself wants to go all the way. In a letter sent this month from his 10-foot-by-12-foot cell...