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Misguided poster child for New York Times to claim "No Justification" for the death penalty

By Douglas A. Berman

The New York Times this morning has this notable editorial headlined "No Justification," which uses the latest kerfuffle over Arizona's execution of Jeffrey Landrigan earlier this week to assail the death penalty. Here is how the editorial begins: Two years ago, when a splintered Supreme Court approved lethal injection as a means of execution in Baze v. Rees, Justice John Paul Stevens made a prophecy.  Instead of ending the controversy, he said, the ruling would raise questions ?about the justification for the death penalty itself.?  Since then, evidence has continued to mount, showing the huge injustice of the death penalty ? and the particular barbarism of this form of execution. In the case of Jeffrey Landrigan, convicted of murder and executed by Arizona on Tuesday, the system failed him at almost every level, most disturbingly at the Supreme Court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 29, 2010 (boomark / email).