Ms. DAHLIA LITHWICK (Legal Analyst, Slate): That's right, Alex, and 37 of the 38 states that currently have the death penalty, this is their preferred method of execution, but prisoners are complaining that it doesn't work, that it's causing a tremendous amount of pain, more so than was present in death sentences using the electric chair or gas.

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Zardari made his first public appearance before the world only three days after his mother's death when he was announced as the new chair of the Pakistan's People's Party.

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Labour MP Stephen Pound, vice chair of the all party group on the death penalty, said Miss Orobator was being kept "in the most inhumane circumstances".

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"This is a very timely hearing, as we are unfortunately experiencing a high level of pipeline accidents that have caused significant death and destruction, " said Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Florida, chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.

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Ms Martin was taken through the injuries Millie had suffered before her death, but said that, apart from seeing her daughter hit her ear on a chair, her other bruises were "unexplained".

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Anti-death penalty activists say lethal injections - introduced in Florida and other states as a replacement for the electric chair and other methods of execution - are just as cruel and should not be considered a more humane substitute.

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Anne McIntosh, chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, was speaking in the wake of the death of Jade Anderson, 14.

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