We as a country have been dramatically changing our notions about clemency and the death penalty in the past half decade.

This is an issue that is ultimately going to have to be resolved by the Supreme Court. Because you're ultimately not likely ever going to have doctors in the execution chamber.

Lethal injection is the only method being used now, for all practical purposes. The chemicals are almost the same in all the states, and they're being challenged in all the states.

If you are a lawyer you are filing something just like Clarence Hill as we speak.

It's just an unsolvable kind of problem. We're never going to have a carefree system of painless executions.

We have not yet left the past behind: its death grip can be felt everywhere.