{"id":77330,"date":"2026-08-12T16:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/the-doctor-who-helps-put-prisoners-to-death-stateside-with-kai-and-carter\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:54:56","slug":"the-doctor-who-helps-put-prisoners-to-death-stateside-with-kai-and-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/the-doctor-who-helps-put-prisoners-to-death-stateside-with-kai-and-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"The doctor who helps put prisoners to death \u2013 Stateside with Kai and Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 August, three states are set to carry out executions by lethal injection. It\u2019s the first time since 2010 that three people will be put to death on the same day in the US. In Tennessee, the execution of Darrell Hines is in the spotlight, because the last lethal injection in the state was botched. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/edpilkington\">Ed Pilkington<\/a> speaks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/kai-wright\">Kai Wright<\/a> about the doctor at the center of that botched execution, whose identity was revealed inadvertently last year. Ed explains how his reporting has lifted the lid on a role that is usually hidden away from public view, and what it tells us about the American death penalty today<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/aug\/08\/tennessee-doctor-executions-death-penalty\">Unmasked: the doctor who helps put prisoners to death<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2026\/aug\/12\/darrell-hines-capital-punishment-stateside-podcast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 August, three states are set to carry out executions by lethal injection. It\u2019s the first time since 2010 that three people will be put to death on the same day in the US. In Tennessee, the execution of Darrell Hines is in the spotlight, because the last lethal injection in the state was &#8230; <a title=\"The doctor who helps put prisoners to death \u2013 Stateside with Kai and Carter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/the-doctor-who-helps-put-prisoners-to-death-stateside-with-kai-and-carter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The doctor who helps put prisoners to death \u2013 Stateside with Kai and Carter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}