Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

Editorial Round-Up

By standdown

Today's Philadelphia Inquirer has the must-read editorial, "A rush to kill."Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has signaled its support for the death penalty, several states are rushing to schedule executions. It's as if the court's approval of lethal injection has suddenly made it a health cure. What ails the nation's flawed system of capital punishment won't be remedied, though, by tinkering with "the machinery of death," to use Justice Harry A. Blackmun's words. States would be far wiser to continue their de facto moratorium on executions that held while the court considered this latest case. That would provide more time to examine and expose the many problems with capital punishment. Then, more states could follow New Jersey's sensible decision to get out of the execution business altogether...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 25, 2008 (boomark / email).