Christa Pike: Lethal Injection Hides State Violence Under ‘Chemical Veneer’ | Corinna Barrett Lain

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“[Lethal injection] allows people to think we’re just putting down a pet, which autopsies show, that is absolutely not what we’re doing.” Every kind of execution method requires “state violence” to end life, and lethal injection is no different - it just hides that violence under a “chemical veneer”, says criminal justice expert and author Corinna Barrett Lain. Corinna Barrett Lain was speaking to Roya Nikkah and Rosie Wright, in for Jane Garvey and Fi Glover, on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday-Thursday from 2-4pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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