CORINNA BARRETT LAIN is the S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law. She is one of the nation’s leading authorities on the death penalty

Secrets of the Killing State uses shocking revelations about lethal injection to shine a light on the American death penalty more broadly, proving time and again that the state at its most powerful moment is also the state at its worst.

We are now over 45 years into the lethal injection era, and most Americans still have no idea what states are doing in their name. It’s time they found out.

Sponsored by Ohioans to Stop Executions (OTSE.org) and First Unitarian Church of Toledo