1. One Week in the World of Lethal Injection
2. The Origins of Lethal Injection
3. The Collapse of the Original Paradigm
4. A Decade of Mishaps
5. State Responses
6. Failure, Reform, and the Future
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Chair of Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author, most recently, of Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty (Stanford, 2014) and The Death Penalty on the Ballot (2019).
"This book does more to unmask lethal injection's everyday cruelty
than any other book that I know. Sarat writes with clarity and
compassion, and anyone interested in justice would be well advised
to read his words."—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man
Walking
"Macabre and painstakingly detailed, this book puts to rest any
illusions that lethal injection is clean, safe or painless. This
little book doesn't let us get away with abstract debates and
intellectual complacency. It lands like a gut punch."—Congressman
Jamie Raskin (MD-8),
"This enormously readable book uncovers the troubled history and
failed promise of lethal injection, and is sure to help change our
national conversation about capital punishment."—Harlan Coben, #1
New York Times-bestselling author
"Sarat vividly delineates the historical, social, legal, and
ideological forces governing capital punishment and their
implications and ramifications for individuals, the criminal
justice system, and society. In a highly charged political era,
this book is a timely education in capital punishment, executions,
law, race relations, and social and legal reform—a must-read for
all people interested in better understanding the application of
the death penalty and those vested in positive transformation.
Highly recommended."—M. G. Urbina, CHOICE
"Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane
Executionchronicles a significant, comprehensive, and insightful
analysis of the history and evolutionary process of lethal
injection executions in the United States, as well as the false
promise of the perceived humanity of this method of execution. This
ground-breaking book provides a thoughtful analysis including: the
origins of lethal injection in this country, collapse of the
original protocol of three-drugs (at issue in theBaze v. Reescase),
a decade of botched executions from 2010-2020, state responses to
these flagrant errors, and implications for futile reform and the
future of capital punishment itself."—Talia Roitberg Harmon,
Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
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