Lethal injection: the illusion of a humane death

Lethal injection: the illusion of a humane death

From seven feet of tubing to prisoners drowning beneath a white sheet, law professor Corinna Lain exposes the hidden science, secrecy and human cost of America’s lethal injections. Lethal injection is America’s most common execution method: a death by drugs presented...
Does the UK need a ‘body farm’?

Does the UK need a ‘body farm’?

Britain still has no human taphonomy facility: a secure research site where donated bodies can be studied after death to help forensic scientists understand decomposition. The phrase most people know is “body farm”. It belongs more naturally to crime fiction than to...