Society‘Colossal failure’: America’s death penalty system is broken from start to finish

International human rights lawyer and former New York assistant attorney general Reed Brody says the botched execution of Christa Pike exposes a much broader failure in America’s capital punishment system. The lethal-injection malfunction points to weaknesses in defence representation, disparities between jurisdictions and states’ difficulties in carrying out executions, raising questions about due process and human dignity.

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