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: Sentencing Law and Policy

Justice Stevens horsing around about lethal injections

By Douglas A. Berman

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I headed home early from the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, and so I missed Justice Stevens speaking at the big conference dinner.  But this local report suggests Justice Stevens was his usual sharp commentor on the legal (and sporting) news of the day:Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens drew a round of applause Friday night in Chattanooga when he suggested that the recently-euthanized Kentucky Derby horse Eight Bells had probably experienced a more humane death than those who die on death row. ?I had checked the procedure they used to kill the horse,? Justice Stevens said, expressing surprise to learn it is against the law in Kentucky to kill animals using one of the drugs in a three-drug lethal injection cocktail that many believe is cruel to humans...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 10, 2008 (boomark / email).

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