“The death penalty is not the answer to the problem of violence committed by persons with severe mental disorders.”

The surest and simplest way to make sure that the human error involved in every component of the death penalty process is avoided is simply to end it.

Dr Jay Chapman sought to develop a more humane method of execution but miscarriages of justice leave him ambivalent about capital punishment

Justice Elena Kagan contended that the way states carry out most executions amounts to having prisoners “burned alive from the inside.”