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Enough of the Death Penalty

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Hartford Courant in Connecticut.  The subtitle is, "EXECUTION MISTAKES ? Cases in Ohio, Texas show why capital punishment should end."The sickening spectacle of technicians laboring for two hours, without success, to insert a needle into the arm of an Ohio convict so they could execute him shows again why the death penalty is a national embarrassment. This was the third time that Ohio has botched an execution. In two prior cases, death-penalty technicians had needed more than an hour to push needles into the veins of condemned inmates. In the most recent case last week, frustrated technicians even had to take a break before finally giving up their attempt to execute Romell Broom, convicted in the 1984 rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 25, 2009 (boomark / email).