-The Washington Post, May 2, 2010 by Rob Stein
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/01/AR2010050103190.html?hpid=topnews
“If I were lying there on the gurney and someone was administering a paralyzing drug … I would want someone there who knew what they were doing,” said Ty Alper, associate director of the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law. “Just like if I was getting surgery—I wouldn’t want a prison guard administering the anesthesia.”
-KTVU, May 4, 2010 by KTVU.com
http://www.ktvu.com/news/23456499/detail.html
“I think it’s possible to conduct lethal injections in a way that is humane. I don’t think that the three drug formula that most states use, that California uses, is likely to lead to safe, humane executions,” said UC Berkeley Death Penalty Clinic Associate Director Ty Alper.