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: Governing Through Crime

Capital Punishment's Loyal Officer

By Jonathan Simor

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It was a zinger worthy of a Presidential debate (and almost certainly just as planned). Justice Samuel Alito, confronted Federal Public Defender Robin Conrad in the midst of her oral argument on April 29 in Glossip v. Gross, a case challenging Oklahoma?s lethal injection execution procedure.Yes. I mean, let's be honest about what's going on here. Executions could be carried out painlessly. There are many jurisdictions нн there are jurisdictions in this country, there are jurisdictions abroad that allow assisted suicide, and I assume that those are carried out with little, if any, pain. Oklahoma and other States could carry out executions painlessly. Now, this Court has held that the death penalty is constitutional. It's controversial as a constitutional matter...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on May 09, 2015 (boomark / email).