31. After replacing its electric chair with lethal injection, Georgia has carried out the executions of six condemned prisoners with what prison officials maintain was only routine difficulty. 32. Bright answered that the law specifies that if the electric chair is ever found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the method automatically turns to lethal injection. 33. Bush contends that the chair is humane, but is considering a special session of the Legislature in January to discuss a change to lethal injection. 34. Bush said he will be in Texas on Thursday when Graham is scheduled for lethal injection. 35. But finding McKinney guilty on two other felony charges in Wyoming established aggravating factors that elevate the options of punishment to include death by lethal injection. 36. But he questions whether lethal injection is truly a deterrent to crime. 37. But killing is a messy business, even in these days of tidy lethal injection. 38. But sanitizing the death penalty with lethal injections does not make it any less barbaric. 39. But the German government is outraged about the upcoming executions of the LaGrand brothers, who have chosen gas rather than lethal injection as their preference for death. |
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