The death penalty by lethal injection turns 43

The execution by lethal injection, in its current formulation, was publicly presented on May 11, 1977 by an American doctor from the state of Oklahoma, Jay Chapman, as a more “humane” alternative to other types of executions, such as electrocution or hanging, and today is the most common form of execution in the United States. Of the 22 judicial executions that occurred in 2019 in this