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Letter: Death row

Published 27 November 2013

From Gregory Sams

I read of the crisis in the US penal system arising from the difficulty of obtaining supplies for lethal injections. Although no advocate of the death penalty, I am appalled by the inability to consider readily available morphine, presumably because of the risk that a criminal might die with a smile.
London, UK

Issue no. 2945 published 30 November 2013

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