178 Teresa Zimmers - The Murky Science of Lethal Injection

Inquiring Minds

Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

4.4 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We talk to associate professor of surgery at Indiana University Teresa Zimmers about her work on whether or not lethal injection drugs actually provide a humane, painless death as promised.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0	It's Monday, May 8th, 2017, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.
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1:34.9	Just last month, Arkansas undertook an unprecedented series of executions using lethal injection
1:43.5	drugs.
1:44.5	This was unprecedented both by how quickly the executions took place just over a matter of
1:51.9	days.
1:52.9	But the controversy also revolves around a bit of a scientific issue.
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