|
|
| Opinion: The injection paradox |
| By Los Angeles Times |
| Published: 10/03/2007 |
|
CALIFORNIA - In agreeing to decide whether some executions by lethal injection are so painful as to violate the Constitution, the Supreme Court has given at least some death row inmates a reprieve. After deciding last week to hear a lethal-injection case from Kentucky, the court stayed a scheduled execution in Texas. Executions in California already were on hold pending a federal judge's approval of new lethal-injection procedures. Opponents of the death penalty -- including this page -- must welcome any legal development that leads to fewer executions, even in the short term. But it would be a mistake to regard the Supreme Court's decision to review Kentucky's lethal-injection procedures as the beginning of the end of the death penalty. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
MARKETPLACE search vendors | advanced search
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
|
Comments:
No comments have been posted for this article.
Login to let us know what you think