Scott Dozier wants to be executed. After working for more than a year trying to ensure that it would happen, his execution is scheduled for tonight. Here’s what you need to know. 1/https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/01/18/the-volunteer?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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Of the plan to use this experimental — and lethal — drug cocktail, one expert told TMP: “This is not actually science. It’s not actually medicine. It is a grotesque impersonation of those things.” 7/https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/08/30/nevada-plans-to-use-fentanyl-in-upcoming-execution?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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Fentanyl is also implicated in the opioid epidemic. “On top of that, it’s never been used in an execution before,” the Nevada ACLU's legal director told
@GuardianUS. “It’s extremely experimental. There is a very real risk of a botched execution.” 8/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/10/nevada-fentanyl-execution-opioid-crisis-drug-death-row …Show this thread -
However, Dozier recently told
@VICE/@VICEnews he’s not concerned about this experimental use of fentanyl: “You guys get pharmaceutical grade fentanyl and just bang me up man.” 9/https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/pawy58/scott-dozier-isnt-afraid-of-being-executed-with-fentanyl-just-bang-me-up-man …Show this thread -
Yesterday, the pharmaceutical company Alvogen filed a complaint in Nevada’s Clark County citing that their drug midazolam was illegally obtained for use in this execution. TMP’s
@MauriceChammah discussed Dozier and that case on@democracynow today. 10/https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/11/nevada_plans_to_kill_condemned_prisoner …Show this thread -
What are the social implications of people on death row asking to be executed? Here’s
@MauriceChammah's in-depth look at the complicated state of capital punishment in America. 11/11 https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/01/18/the-volunteer?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …pic.twitter.com/oGgEdQJk4Q
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fine...then just hang him.....
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