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Long life

If America can't put a person to death painlessly, it should stop executions altogether

Dennis McGuire took 25 minutes to die by a new drug via lethal injection. A pursuit for greater humanity has led to more inhumane ways of killing

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

I have never supported the death penalty. Maybe I was influenced when I was six or seven years old by the fact that our next-door neighbour in Campden Hill Square, west London, was a woman who devoted her life to campaigning for its abolition. She was born Violet Dodge in Surrey in 1882, the daughter of a washerwoman and of a ‘coal porter’ (a person whose job is to carry sacks of coal).

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