lethal injection
Capital punishment- SCOTUS denies relief on lethal injection, & then finds ineffective counsel on race-based evidence
example along with the constant execution machines of China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. In all likelihood, Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will help allow the nation's death penalty machine to proceed virtually full speed ahead.This week, the Supreme Court denied relief to a...
Recent Alabama execution dashes notion of painless lethal injection – And Twitter responses
Ronald Bert Smith, Jr.'s Alabama execution -- discussed separately by me today -- is an example of the fallacy that lethal injection can be assured to be painless. Alabama news reporter Kent Faulk witnessed the execution, and describes the following
When elected judges overrule juries sparing execution
Even in states where judges ordinarily handle sentencing in criminal cases rather than having the jury recommend the sentence, currently all states but Alabama prohibit a death sentence unless the jury recommends such a sentence. Sadly, this effectively means that Alabama judges -- all elected...
Virginia as the Confederacy’s cradle should shed its history of executions, Jim Crow and slavery
How much good was it, really, that Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe earlier in April 2016 vetoed a bill to mandate electrocutions when lethal injection drugs are not available for executions, when all along he was advocating for shielding lethal injection drug manufacturers' identities, in the...
Virginia voters- Urge Governor to veto electric chair use, before his April 10 midnight action deadline
Dear fellow Virginia voters- Please contact Governor McAuliffe online to urge him to veto electric chair use before his April 10 midnight action deadline. The Bill's final text is here.