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Executions to Resume; Question Is When

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That's the title of an article in Florida Catholic written by Jacquelyn Horkan. LINKWhen the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state-administered death by lethal injection is not a cruel and unusual punishment, Florida?s politicians reacted with an eagerness some found unsettling.         Gov. Charlie Crist and Attorney General Bill McCollum congratulated the court and promised to get the state?s execution machinery back into operation. There are a few hurdles they must overcome first. The first and only death warrant signed by Gov. Crist, for the execution of Mark Dean Schwab, was stayed by the U.S. Supreme Court while the justices contemplated a challenge to Kentucky?s lethal-injection law. Even though the April 16 Baze v...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).