There is no clean way to take a human life.
For a century, we have pretended otherwise. The rope became the chair. The chair became the gas chamber. The gas chamber became the needle. Each method was sold as more humane than the last. Each one proved to be a lie.
Now, Idaho has made the firing squad its primary method of execution. The first state in modern history to do so.
Somewhere south of Boise sits a chair with straps for the ankles, the waist and the arms. Facing it is a wall with gun ports. A white cloth. A target pinned over where a human heart should be.
The Lie of the Clean Kill looks directly at what Idaho has built...the protocols, the shooters and the second volley written into the rules for the moment the first one fails. States do not draft contingency procedures for outcomes they believe are impossible. The clean, foolproof argument collapses in the face of its own rules.
Drawing on public records, court filings, medical evidence and the testimony of those who have stood closest to the killing, this book confronts the oldest lie of the killing state: that killing can somehow be made clean.
It cannot.
The firing squad is not a return to honesty.
It is a better disguise.
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