If there were a return to executions by hanging, shooting, gas chamber or electric chair, health professionals would still be involved in one way or another.
Yet if this marks a return to executions in the region, and thus a shift away from a more liberal position, then so much the worse.(Picture credit: AFP).
In a region where the death penalty is the norm, the return to executions was met by something novel in the Middle East: a full-fledged and homegrown campaign, led by human rights advocates and members of the clergy, to eliminate capital punishment in Lebanon.
Honduras also raised the issue of religious discrimination, Argentina and Bulgaria criticized the return to executions.
With lethal injections in short supply around the country, Utah is one of a handful of states returning to execution practices once abandoned for their gruesome nature.
Facing dwindling supplies of lethal injection chemicals and increased legal scrutiny of the practice, some states are considering a return to antiquated execution methods like firing squads and gas chambers -- and Oklahoma is considering using a new type of gas.
The council also demanded a return to public executions for killers as well as a crackdown against graft.
If Texas and other states that are having such difficult getting the needed drugs would return to hanging executions could once again enjoy the simplicity of years gone by.
Their misery, although powerfully depicted in scenes of confrontation or isolation, seems to be deeply private, personal, ultimately without reference to the ostensible political background introduced every now and then as Lahiri returns to the execution scene, playing it one way in depicting the brutality of the police and then the other in revealing Udayan's own complicity in a crime.
This hasn't stopped America from executing its death row prisoners; instead, authorities have started concocting dangerously experimental drug combinations or returning to older execution methods.
