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Helping Karl
Karl in the Media
Karl has attracted attention from the media, more recently because of the debate over the use and legality of lethal injection, and also because in January 2008 he was the only inmate on Texas Death Row that hadn't had a stay of execution following the decision by the Supreme Court to suspend all executions pending an investigation into the use of the three-drug death cocktail.
If you know of any that we're missing please be sure to let us know.
Published Media
- Austin American-Statesman - September 2007
- Las Vegas Optic - 30th November 2007
- Las Vegas Optic - 6th December 2007
- Santa Fe Reporter - 16th January 2008 (also video)
- Dallas Morning News - 1st February 2008
- Friends Journal - April 2008
- Las Vegas Optic - 14th May 2008
Broadcast Media
- Santa Fe Reporter - 16th January 2008
- BBC This World - 18th March 2008
Death Penalty in the Media
The debate over the death penalty and especially lethal injection rages on in Texas and worldwide. We'll try to publish the latest articles or provide links here.
Published Media
- New York Times - 23rd June 2006
- Dallas Morning News - 18th April 2007
- American-Statesman - 18th May 2007
- American-Statesman - 29th September 2007
- Houston Chronicle - 4th October 2007
- Newsweek - 19th November 2007
- New York Times - 3rd January 2008
- Chicago Tribune - 8th January 2008
- Associated Press - 9th January 2008
- The Independent (UK) - 6th April 2008
- Bloomberg - 16th April 2008
- New York Times - 16th April 2008
- The Guardian (UK) - 17th April 2008
- American-Statesman - 17th April 2008
- Daily Telegraph (UK) - 18th April 2008
Death Row on the Silver Screen
- American-Statesman - The Green Mile (2004)
On May 2, killer Joseph Clark's execution was delayed by 90 minutes as officials sought to find a usable vein for the lethal chemical cocktail. At one point, Clark said: "Can you just give me something by mouth to end this?"
Death penalty foes said the incident showed that capital punishment is cruel.
From now on, execution team members will begin searching for viable veins the day before. "So far, all his veins look good," Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction spokeswoman Andrea Dean said of Barton Tuesday.
There also will be no time limits for executioners to find veins, and there must be one usable vein on each arm before an execution can begin, she said. A low-pressure, constant drip of saline into the intravenous line will test whether the vein remains open.
Tom Beyerlein, Austin American-Statesman 12th July 2006