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New York Times (irresponsibly?) contends "There Is No ?Humane? Execution"

By Douglas A. Berman

"There Is No ?Humane? Execution" is the headline of this new New York Times editorial, which highlights yet again that those inclined to complain most loudly about various methods of execution are really fundamentally troubled by the entire business of capital punishment.  Here are snippets from what strikes me as a somewhat irresponsible editorial: This is what passes for progress in the application of the death penalty: Kenneth Biros, a convicted murderer, was put to death in Ohio last week with one drug, instead of the more common three-drug cocktail.... Ohio adopted the single-drug formula after the botched execution.  It may well be an improvement over the three-drug cocktail, or may not.  (Death penalty advocates who hailed it as less painful have no way, obviously, of knowing that...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 14, 2009 (boomark / email).