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Washington -- Federal and state governments should move to a single lethal drug for executions instead of complex cocktails that can be botched, a group of criminal justice experts said in a new review of the death penalty in the United States.
The experts also recommended that governments should let the public know more about their processes in carrying out the death penalty.
The report comes as the Justice Department conducts a review of federal and state death penalty procedures, including the drugs used, following a botched execution in Oklahoma last week.
The Constitution Project published the report called "Irreversible Error," the work of bipartisan group of experts, including former elected leaders who oversaw executions, and anti-death penalty activists.
The group doesn't take a position on whether the death penalty should be used, but rather suggests ways to improve the system, the Constitution Project says, to ensure it is being carried out fairly.
Sources: CNN, FCN, May 7, 2014
What a waste of time and energy! There is no "fixing" an immoral, barbaric, and anachronistic system. Like slavery, which generated so much heated debate before it was ultimately abolished, the death penalty should now be considered by U.S. lawmakers and the American public at large for what it is: a relic of the past, a punishment incompatible with nations that regard human rights as a supreme value, a barbaric and obscene practice which must now be terminated. (Death Penalty News Admin.
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