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Landirgan Execution - Additional Commentary

By Steve Hall

"No Justification," is the title of a New York Times editorial from Friday's paper. 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. In a 5-to-4 vote, the court?s conservative majority allowed the execution to proceed based on a stark misrepresentation...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 01, 2010 (boomark / email).