Professor of Law at Santa Clara University
Professor of Law at Santa Clara University and Director of its Death Penalty College, a training program for defense attorneys with pending capital cases
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Ellen Kreitzberg
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FROM Ellen Kreitzberg
Which Way, L.A.?
Are Executions Cruel and Unusual Punishment? In San Jose yesterday, an anesthesiologist from Columbia Medical School said convicts executed by lethal injection in California may have been conscious and suffered excruciating pain. Today is the third day of hearings into whether the death penalty, as administered in this state, is "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the US Constitution.
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