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Lethal Injection Is Not Humane.
The cover image takes its theme from the paper by Leonidas Koniaris and colleagues. Data from executions in the US suggest that current lethal injection protocols do not effect death through the mechanisms intended, and that potentially aware inmates could die through pancuronium-induced asphyxiation. The humaneness of lethal injection is discussed further in the accompanying Editorial.
Image Credit: Image provided by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Citation: (2007) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 4(4) April 2007. PLoS Med 4(4): ev04.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v04.i04
Published: April 24, 2007
Copyright: © 2007 California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The cover image takes its theme from the paper by Leonidas Koniaris and colleagues. Data from executions in the US suggest that current lethal injection protocols do not effect death through the mechanisms intended, and that potentially aware inmates could die through pancuronium-induced asphyxiation. The humaneness of lethal injection is discussed further in the accompanying Editorial.
Image Credit: Image provided by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation