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Rulings on death penalty

Reasons to abolish I am disheartened that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to tackle the method used in executions. (Please see "COUNTY GEARS UP FOR EXECUTIONS / High court: Backs Kentucky's lethal injection," Page One, Thursday.) This three-drug protocol was developed by an Oklahoma pharmacist in the 1970s, and it stands even when the veterinarian association abandoned it for a more humane method using only an overdose of anesthetic. Doctors said there were indications of low blood levels of anesthetic and that some were most likely partly conscious through it. The rest of the Western world, and in fact much of the world, has abandoned the death penalty. But in Texas in 2007 we carried out our 400th execution, a number four times higher than the next closest state, Virginia, at 98, even though there are 17 states with higher murder rates...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on April 19, 2008 (boomark / email).