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Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broader sense to include euthanasia and other forms of ...
Lethal injection was proposed and adopted on the grounds it was more humane than the methods of execution in place at the time, such as the electric chair and gas chamber. [2] Opponents of lethal injection reject this argument, noting multiple cases where executions have been either painful, prolonged, or both.
Karl Brandt (8 January 1904 – 2 June 1948) was a German physician and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in Nazi Germany.Trained in surgery, Brandt joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became Adolf Hitler's escort doctor in August 1934. [1]
He was responsible for initiating mass killing by lethal injection to the heart of handicapped and sick prisoners. Under his supervision approximately 900 Russian, Polish and Czech prisoners were murdered by lethal injections of gasoline and phenol. Because of this, inmates nicknamed him 'Dr. Spritzbach' (Dr. Injection).
[44] Instead, the men were given a lethal injection and gunshot wounds to make them appear to have been killed in action during a fake attack. [45] These incidents (particularly the staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station) were then used in Nazi propaganda to justify the invasion of Poland, the opening event of World War II. [14] [46]
Convicted murderer Freddie Owens is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20. It will be the first execution carried out by the state in 13 years, and the first under a new ...
Moore has chosen to be executed by lethal injection, his attorneys say, after wrangling over South Carolina’s access to lethal injection drugs led McMaster to sign a law in 2021 allowing the ...
South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection on Friday during the state’s first execution in 13 years. Owens, 46, was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing a ...