Video 1: Nebraska Execution

Description: Nebraska has become the first U.S. state to use the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl in a lethal injection after a federal three-judge panel denied a drug company’s request to stop the execution over concerns the state had acquired the drug illegally.

Video 2: Bill Cosby Sentence

Description: Bill Cosby sentenced to 3–10 years in prison for sexual assault.

Audio Link

Audio 1: Supreme Court Strikes Down Florida’s Death Penalty System

Description: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Florida’s death sentencing system as unconstitutional on Tuesday, casting doubt on the status of all the state’s death sentences.

Audio 2: Judge Regrets Harsh Human Toll of Mandatory Minimum Sentences

Description: Judge John Gleeson says, about mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes, “people in Congress meant well. ... But it just turns out that policy is wrong.”

Web Resources

Web Link 1: Death Penalty Information Center

Web Link 2: United States Sentencing Commission