Conservatives Concerned is sponsoring a series of book talks featuring University of Richmond law professor Corinna Barrett Lain, following our event in July in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her book, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection, exposes the lack of transparency and accountability in execution practices.
Come hear the author speak about her research, get a copy of the book, and talk with me about how you can get involved with Conservatives Concerned at the following events:
- October 14 in Las Vegas, Nevada from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm at Mad Red Books
- October 17 in Boise, Idaho from 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm at Rediscovered Bookshop
- October 19 in Missoula, Montana from 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm at Fact & Fiction
Professor Lain may also be coming to a city near you. Check out the full list of the stops on her book tour.
Nevada’s and Idaho’s histories with lethal injection demonstrate why all conservatives and taxpayers should be concerned about execution secrecy. In 2020, after a court found that state officials used “subterfuge” to obtain drugs for lethal injection, the state of Nevada returned the drugs to their manufacturers, who oppose the misuse of their medicines in executions. Idaho, meanwhile, has repeatedly spent exorbitant sums buying drugs for executions in secretive transactions and even called off an execution in 2024 after an hour because corrections officers were unable to establish an IV line. As Dr. Jeffrey Singer, a medical doctor and health policy expert at the libertarian Cato Institute noted earlier this year, prisons rely on guards with limited training to carry out executions because almost “every health professional organization officially considers it unethical to participate in executions.”
