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Lethal Injection Round-Up

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Let's start with syndicated columnist Nat Hentoff's latest, Death-penalty folly," via the Washington Times.That the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court continues by contrast with most civilized nations to justify the death penalty brings me inexorably to Justice Harry Blackmun's dissenting opinion in Callins v. Collins (Feb. 22, 1994). I hope that if this April's Baze v. Reese decision is discussed in any of our secondary schools or colleges and universities, attention is paid to Justice Blackmun's awakening after long service on the court to his responsibilities under the Eighth Amendment in this century: "I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death. For more than twenty years I have endeavored indeed, I have struggled to develop procedural and substantive rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).