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Birmingham News Editorial

By Steve Hall

"The state of Alabama may be short of the resources it needs to educate children, but it somehow has a scarce chemical on hand to carry out an execution on Thursday," is the title of the powerful editorial in today's Birmingham News. Alabama is a notoriously cheap state, as governments go. We skimp on everything from state troopers to schools, denying them the resources to deliver much beyond the basics and sometimes not even getting that far. But when it comes to capital punishment, Alabama is the land of the plenty. Just this week, as the state prepared to put Phillip Hallford to death today, prison officials announced they had enough sodium thiopental to proceed with the execution even though a shortage of the anesthetic has snagged lethal injections across the country...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 04, 2010 (boomark / email).