Tuesday May 6, 2014 – 12pm
Posted May 6, 2014 01:14:06 PM.
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12:00pm- Do you feel overworked?
Tamsin McMahon, Maclean’s Magazine Associate Editor
There is scant evidence that we’re actually busier or more overworked than in the past. Despite a sluggish economy that has left millions of people feeling they have to work harder just to keep their jobs, the average employed American worked just 34.2 hours a week last year, while the number of people working ‘extreme jobs’ of more than 60 hours a week makes up just 1% of the population.
12:30pm- Botched Execution in Oklahoma
Deborah Denno, Expert on Lethal Injections at Fordham University Law School in New York
A botched execution using a disputed new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney last Tuesday. Clayton Lockett, 38, was declared unconscious 10 minutes after the first of the state’s new three-drug combination was administered. Three minutes later, though, he began breathing heavily, writhing on the gurney, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow. He eventually died of a heart attack.
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