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John Chontos Las Vegas
September 23, 2017 - 9:00 pm
 

I keep reading about ethical problems with the cocktail mixes used for lethal injections to condemned criminals (“Attorneys to oppose execution drug mix,” Thursday Review-Journal). Failure rates and unexpected traumas have caused many states to delay or suspend the executions.

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