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Editorial Commentary on Lethal Injection

By Steve Hall

Today's New York Times carries the editorial, "Lethal Injection and the F.D.A." Sodium thiopental is at the heart of this story. A fast- and short-acting general anesthetic, it has been used to put convicts under and make executions methodical. For more than a year, however, a shortage of the drug has widened the gap between the reality of carrying out executions and support for them in American law. In October, a majority of the Supreme Court wrongly insisted there was no evidence that the shortage had any bearing on whether an execution can be done constitutionally. Now the evidence is impossible to ignore. We strongly oppose capital punishment on many grounds. Even with judicial blessing, the conduct of executions in this country is a shambles...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 28, 2011 (boomark / email).