Before Ledell Lee was strapped to a gurney and given a lethal injection on Thursday in Arkansas, he would have looked into the faces of complete strangers. In 1998, Clark watched Douglas Buchanan Jr. die by lethal injection. Earlier this month, he testified in the U.S. Federal Court about ethics of using the lethal injection drug midazolam, a drug he has seen numerous times in action. “I think people have the impression that lethal injection is very humane, that they just go to sleep,” Baich said. “That’s all I can say.”The last fully public execution was in 1936.

Source: National Post April 21, 2017 19:30 UTC