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Cruel and unnecessary

Cruel and unnecessary Monday, February 04, 2008 THE ISSUE: Two families suffered this past week because state prosecutors were so eager to proceed with an execution. The U.S. Supreme Court, not surprisingly, stopped it. The normal path to a killer's execution is terribly hard on two families - the killer's family, and the family of his victims. Because issues of life and death are involved, the capital cases receive extra attention from the courts. They are held to a higher standard, and they are regularly overturned and sent back for new trials or additional work. There are execution dates set, followed by delays. At every step along the journey, hopes are raised on one side, dashed on the other. So it has been in the case of James Harvey Callahan, who was sentenced to death for kidnapping, raping and killing a Jacksonville State University student in 1982...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).