Convicted Murderer, 49, Executed by Lethal Injection in Texas

DPI’s Podcast 12:01 The Death Penalty in Context: Author Corinna Barrett Lain on the “Untold Story” of Lethal Injection | Death Penalty Information Center

In this month’s pod­cast episode of *12:01 The Death Penalty in Context*, DPI’s Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Corinna Barrett Lain, the S.D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law and author of the recent­ly pub­lished book, *Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection*. Ms. Lain’s new book chal­lenges a wide­ly held assump­tion that lethal injec­tion is a pain­le…

On Wednesday night, Matthew Johnson was executed for the murder of a woman in a convenience store in Texas in 2012.