Examines the growing discomfort in the medical community with using lethal injection

New York Times Magazine, Feb. 11

An article examines the growing discomfort in the medical community with using lethal injection as an execution method. Horror stories abound: One convict took 34 minutes to die after the execution team injected the cocktail into soft tissue instead of a vein. Doctors aren't always present at executions; for many "nonmedical" personnel who administer the injections, the day of the execution is "the first time probably in their life they have picked up a syringe," one doctor testified. … A piece chronicles the years a former fugitive spent on the lam. Orlando Boquete, who was sentenced to 50 years in prison for crimes he did not commit, escaped from a prison in 1985 and avoided capture for a decade. At one point, police showed up at his house in Miami's Little Havana after receiving a tip that he was hiding there: ",'If you're looking for this Boquete, why don't you bring a picture of him?' Boquete says he demanded."—C.B.