Two men had raised serious innocence claims. Alabama, meanwhile, killed a man whose execution was already botched previously. A bleak week of several executions.
This is sheer barbarism. Aside from the moral argument that there is a very real possiblitity at least some of these accused are innocent, railroaded by a system that cares more about 'wins' than true justice; Death by suffocation?! With all the guns and bullets in the US, this has to be the very definition of 'cruel and unsual'.
I came to the conclusion some time ago that whether or not you thought the death penalty was morally acceptable, the way the death penalty is tried, adjudicated, implemented, and administered in this country was too irregular and unfair to continue. We should not be killing prisoners.
Could not agree more. I am a now-retired public defender death penalty attorney out of New Orleans in the 1980s and sponsor an outfit, Death Penalty Action, which is active in protesting and demonstrating against all five of these terrible events. God help us all. Thank you for bringing this maelstrom to the attention of us. Pray for all of the victims of unthinking, political tyranny posing as Justice - with a carbuncle on her face.
This aligns with the other culture wars that are happening right now from Republicans, especially in the south. Because it doesn't seem like they're doing it as some type of deterrent, given some of these prisoners have been incarcerated for over 25 years. The optics seem more like a big F you: "watch me and you can't do anything about it....this is my state, no one tells me what to do".
SC hasn't executed anyone for over a decade. A state ruling upheld the death penalty recently with two judges declaring the firing squad unconstitutional as "unusual" and one judge also stating the electric chair was cruel. The judges agreed lethal injection was acceptable though it has repeatedly been botched in recent years.
As a lawyer in the UK which abolished the death penalty decades ago, I cannot imagine participating in a capital trial. Indeed it was being said years ago that of it were reintroduced here no judges would try such cases. The reason is simple - leaving aside moral objections to the state taking life, none of us has sufficient faith in the legal system to believe that mistakes cannot be made. Our recent Post Office case in which prosecutors continued with prosecutions of people they knew to be innocent emphasises this fact; there is no reason to believe that the same thing couldn’t happen in a capital case.
This is sheer barbarism. Aside from the moral argument that there is a very real possiblitity at least some of these accused are innocent, railroaded by a system that cares more about 'wins' than true justice; Death by suffocation?! With all the guns and bullets in the US, this has to be the very definition of 'cruel and unsual'.
I came to the conclusion some time ago that whether or not you thought the death penalty was morally acceptable, the way the death penalty is tried, adjudicated, implemented, and administered in this country was too irregular and unfair to continue. We should not be killing prisoners.
Some day, we will stop state sanctioned murders. My hope and prayer
Could not agree more. I am a now-retired public defender death penalty attorney out of New Orleans in the 1980s and sponsor an outfit, Death Penalty Action, which is active in protesting and demonstrating against all five of these terrible events. God help us all. Thank you for bringing this maelstrom to the attention of us. Pray for all of the victims of unthinking, political tyranny posing as Justice - with a carbuncle on her face.
This aligns with the other culture wars that are happening right now from Republicans, especially in the south. Because it doesn't seem like they're doing it as some type of deterrent, given some of these prisoners have been incarcerated for over 25 years. The optics seem more like a big F you: "watch me and you can't do anything about it....this is my state, no one tells me what to do".
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All former slave states, except OK which would have been ok with it.
And another one scheduled for October 1.
SC hasn't executed anyone for over a decade. A state ruling upheld the death penalty recently with two judges declaring the firing squad unconstitutional as "unusual" and one judge also stating the electric chair was cruel. The judges agreed lethal injection was acceptable though it has repeatedly been botched in recent years.
Ours is truly a culture of death—physical, moral, spiritual.
We are barbaric. The death penalty should have been abolished a long time ago!
"Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that she would have stayed the execution."
I know it was last minute. But, I do wish she would have provided a brief reason why.
As a lawyer in the UK which abolished the death penalty decades ago, I cannot imagine participating in a capital trial. Indeed it was being said years ago that of it were reintroduced here no judges would try such cases. The reason is simple - leaving aside moral objections to the state taking life, none of us has sufficient faith in the legal system to believe that mistakes cannot be made. Our recent Post Office case in which prosecutors continued with prosecutions of people they knew to be innocent emphasises this fact; there is no reason to believe that the same thing couldn’t happen in a capital case.