Kent scheidegger biography

Most Americans don't spend a lot of time thinking about the death penalty, but this year, it has been hard to ignore.

Kent scheidegger biography

In January, in Oklahoma, Michael Wilson's last words during his execution were, "I feel my whole body burning." A week later, in Ohio, an experimental cocktail of drugs left Dennis McGuire gasping for breath for 26 minutes before he died.

Clayton Lockett writhed in pain on the gurney during an April lethal injection in Oklahoma; Joseph Wood slowly expired over the course of two hours in July in Arizona. That same month, a federal judge ruled California's death-penalty system unconstitutional, raising the possibility that the country's largest death row will be dismantled.

With the death penalty on the defensive, you might expect an arm