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| Oregon Defends Its Redistribution of Lethal Injection Drugs |
| By theatlantic.com - Ford Vox |
| Published: 12/29/2011 |
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When The Atlantic published "Oregon's New Death-Penalty Hypocrisy" on December 26, folks could assume that Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber didn't know (yet) that his state's prison officials were desperately searching for a vein in which to inject lethal drugs back into the death-penalty market. He now knows about these ongoing efforts, and his do-nothing response leaves us to question the depth of his moral analysis and convictions. Oregon's prison officials want to recoup the $18,000 they spent collecting three drugs with little use other than lethal injection -- drugs now in high demand after the human-rights-promoting European Union banned their import into the United States. This decision to restock the market comes after Gov. Kitzhaber laid out his growing moral discomfort over the death penalty, resulting in his decision to use the power of his to halt any future executions scheduled to take place in Oregon (including one scheduled for December 6). As expected, Oregon's Department of Corrections has dutifully begun dismantling the state-owned machinery of death. But given the marching orders they've received from their executive, it boggles the mind that Oregon's executioners would offer their supplies up to other states (other states are far more likely to use them too -- Oregon's carried out just two executions in recent decades, both under Kitzhaber in the late 1990s). Read More. |
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