The Medicine & Justice Project

The Medicine & Justice Project

A practicing paramedic and journalist looks at the place where healthcare and criminal justice meet.

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The Chilling Indictment of Alejandro Orellana

The Chilling Indictment of Alejandro Orellana

The right to protest may soon depend on whether you can survive how the government intends to suppress it.

Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
Indiana Learns Medicine Doesn't Work on Lethal Injection's Timeline

Indiana Learns Medicine Doesn't Work on Lethal Injection's Timeline

The state spent $600,000 on drugs that won't be used.

Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
LAPD Said There Was "No Ambulance to Be Had." But Did They Ask?

LAPD Said There Was "No Ambulance to Be Had." But Did They Ask?

A confrontation between police and protesters appears to show a bewildering dereliction of duty.

Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
Drugs Would Be Cheaper if We Weren't Killing People with Them

Drugs Would Be Cheaper if We Weren't Killing People with Them

Ignoring drug manufacturers' opposition to the death penalty forces them into expensive extra monitoring, litigation, and supply chain cutoffs.

Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
The Justice Graham Hoffman Deserves

The Justice Graham Hoffman Deserves

What actual justice for a murdered firefighter/paramedic might look like, beyond empowering the same criminal justice system that failed him.

Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
For the Right, Fentanyl Isn't a Problem. It's a Cudgel.

For the Right, Fentanyl Isn't a Problem. It's a Cudgel.

President Trump's rhetoric and personnel decisions echo a conservative tendency to use the opioid crisis for its own ends rather than treating it like an issue of its own..

Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
The Definitive Book on Lethal Injection Is Here

The Definitive Book on Lethal Injection Is Here

Corinna Barrett Lain's "Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection" is a book the populace has sorely needed.

Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
Exoneration Is Not Enough

Exoneration Is Not Enough

Death penalty proponents like to point to exonerations as proof the system works. If anything, they're yet another proof it's hopelessly broken.

Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
Giving Up the Pretense of "A Quiet Death"

Giving Up the Pretense of "A Quiet Death"

With two firing squad executions scheduled this week, the idea that executions can be anything other than homicide by another name appears to be dying.

Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
In Three States, Faint Signs of a Reckoning for Lethal Injection

In Three States, Faint Signs of a Reckoning for Lethal Injection

In Montana, Idaho and Louisiana, legislators give three very different signs that the most popular execution method's time may have passed.

Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
One Year On (and with Executions Looming), What We Know about Nitrogen Executions—and Whether It Matters

One Year On (and with Executions Looming), What We Know about Nitrogen Executions—and Whether It Matters

Using nitrogen to execute inmates was touted as the ultimate solution to humane executions. Eyewitnesses and autopsies beg to differ.

Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
Make "Drugs" Drugs Again

Make "Drugs" Drugs Again

The Trump administration has stopped lying about what execution drugs really are. What does it mean for the death penalty—and the rest of the Trump agenda?

Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
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