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YOUR VIEW: Let's kill capital punishment

YOUR VIEW: Let's kill capital punishmentBy RAIMUNDO DELGADO Mr. Delgado lives in New Bedford. January 16, 2008 6:00 AM Americans should be terribly troubled that the U.S. Supreme Court is divided about whether a lethal injection used in 36 states causes excruciating pain in violation of the Constitution to those condemned to die by lethal injection. Executions have stopped in Kentucky and other states. The use of a three-drug protocol has come into scrutiny due to the fears they cause excruciating pain to the condemned. If the first anesthetic does not take hold, the second paralyzes the prisoner, rendering him or her unable to express pain; a third drug stops the heart.Some justices say there is no painless requirement in the Constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on January 19, 2008 (boomark / email).