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There are editorial commentaries on Baze in the Birmingham News, Kansas City Star, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Raleigh (NC) News & Observer, Syracuse Post-Standard, In the Birmingham News, "The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Kentucky's lethal injection procedures, clearingthe way for executions to resume. Expect Alabama to waste no time wiping the dust off its gurney." The bottom line: While the justices opened the door for states to start putting inmates to death, they hardly provide great moral clarity about the best way for states to proceed. The good news is the court said only that states can resume the death penalty. It didn't say we have to. Given the many problems with our death penalty system - which go far beyond any questions about lethal injection - the state of Alabama shouldn't be in any hurry to dust off its gurney and start putting inmates to death...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).