Killing With Kindness
April, 1979
The adoption by at least three states and the serious study by several more of a new method of execution could signal the start of a "death march" in this country the likes of which Americans have never seen.In 1977, Oklahoma became the first state to institute lethal injection as the prescribed form of official killing. Texas enacted a similar statute the next day, followed by Idaho in 1978. So-called needle bills have been introduced in Florida, South Carolina, Washington and Nevada....
