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Lots of Lethal Injection Commentary

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There is a great deal of commentary on the Baze ruling and the future of lethal injection and capital punishment. Let me start with a must-read by Rudolf J. Gerber in today's Sacrmento Bee.  Gerber is a former prosecutor, trial judge and a judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals; he now teaches at Arizona State University. Gerber is credited with drafting Arizona's death penalty law.  It's titled, "Let's stop, reconsider: Should executions continue?"  Here's an extended excerpt:The halt in executions does demonstrate that the death penalty is not essential to our society. Many people are probably unaware, as its absence has no effect on people's daily lives, that the death penalty has been on hold since September. The cases, however, are stacking up...continue to full post

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