Corinna Toivonen Author: The Untold Story

Death penalty expert corinna barrett lain uses this groundbreaking journey into the dark reality of lethal injection to shine a light on the american death penalty more broadly and show that the state at its most powerful moment is also the state at its worst. Corinna barrett lains secrets of the killing state: The untold story of lethal injection is full of such stories: The oklahoma man who woke up during his own execution and tried to get off the gurney. How arkansas executioners applied concealer to a dead mans neck to cover up the five puncture wounds where theyd tried and failed to.

Secrets of the killing state: The untold story of lethal injection. She will be speaking about tomorrow night at 6pm at red emmas. Corinna barrett lain is the s. Roberts & sandra moore professor of law at the university of richmond school of law. She is one of the nations leading authorities on the death penalty, and author of the 2025 book secrets of the killing state: The untold story of lethal injection. The story of lethal injection is a story of gross incompetence, law breaking, torturous deaths, and a stunning indifference to the way in which human beings die at the hands of the state. These are the secrets of the killing stateall that we know from litigation files, scientific studies, investigative journalism, autopsy reports, interviews. But in the new book secrets of the killing state: The untold story of lethal injection, author and legal historian corinna barrett lain argues that lethal injection remains a violent means of taking a human life. She cites controversies over botched executions and drug shortages that have raised ethical and legal concerns about its continued use. Join us for the book launch of secrets of the killing state: Lethal injection is not what people think, and most americans still have no idea what the government is doing in their name.

The untold story of lethal injection, author and legal historian corinna barrett lain argues that lethal injection remains a violent means of taking a human life. She cites controversies over botched executions and drug shortages that have raised ethical and legal concerns about its continued use. Join us for the book launch of secrets of the killing state: Lethal injection is not what people think, and most americans still have no idea what the government is doing in their name.