Court to Consider Lethal Injection
September 25th, 2007 . by TexasFredWASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in a case that could affect the way inmates are executed around the country.
The high court will hear a challenge from two inmates on death row in Kentucky – Ralph Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr. – who sued Kentucky in 2004, claiming lethal injection amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
Baze has been scheduled for execution Tuesday night, but the Kentucky Supreme Court halted the proceedings earlier this month.
The U.S. Supreme Court has previously made it easier for death row inmates to contest the lethal injections used across the country for executions.
But until Tuesday, the justices had never agreed to consider the fundamental question of whether the mix of drugs used in Kentucky and elsewhere violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
OK, so the SCOTUS for some strange reason happens to decide that lethal injection is a cruel and unusual punishment, fine with me, not a problem at all from my point of view…
We still have several other very effective options at our disposal, firing squad, electrocution, conflagration, hanging, I don’t think the guillotine has ever been used in the USA before but hey, there’s a 1st time for everything, offer these options to the convicted murderers and let them decide what’s cruel and unusual…
Baze, 52, has been on death row for 14 years. He was sentenced for the 1992 shooting deaths of Powell County Sheriff Steve Bennett and Deputy Arthur Briscoe.
Bennett and Briscoe were serving warrants on Baze when he shot them. Baze has said the shootings were the result of a family dispute that got out of hand and resulted in the sheriff being called.
Bowling was sentenced to death for killing Edward and Tina Earley and shooting their 2-year-old son outside the couple’s Lexington, Ky., dry-cleaning business in 1990. Bowling was scheduled to die in November 2004, but a judge stopped it after Bowling and Baze sued over the constitutionality of lethal injection.
Here’s the bottom line, BOTH of these guys are calculating and cold blooded murderers, 1 killed a family, destroyed it forever, the other is a cop killer, times 2, that’s 2 more families torn apart to never be the same again, they deserve to die and the method of their death is of absolutely NO concern for me, tie the bastards up in chains and throw em in the river to drown for all I care, they have committed the most heinous of crimes and it’s time to pay the price, and the manner in which this payment is rendered is of NO consequence, the only thing that matters is the success of the executions…
I hear all the bleeding heart libber tree huggers cry and carry on about the rights of the condemned and how their death may be horrific for them or it may be painful and cause them to suffer physically and force them to endure high levels of mental stress, well, isn’t that just too damned bad??
Do you think the murdering son of a bitch took any of that into consideration as he was killing his victims?? Should WE consider HIS comfort?? The answer to both of those questions is a resounding NO!
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I got a much better idea.
Tatoo an American Flag on their forehead with the words, “Fuck Islam and Fuck Allah”, and drop them in the middle of Iraq. Give them each a butter knife and wish them well.
We can also add a Mohammad Cartoon, that should do it.
I have never understood why these criminals should be treated humanely. They are not human. They are without a soul. Bring back the firing squad or the noose…don’t care. Don’t wanna be executed..don’t do the crime.
Mr. Tough guys when out killing..and they’re all a bunch of candy ass wimps when it comes to a little shot.
The times they are a’changing.
In the old days, these cretins would never have made it to court.
Need I elaborate?
2 days ago in Huntsville TX at the State Prison, 2 guys working the road gang overpowered a female guard, got loose, ran her over with a truck and killed her and they fled…
I told my wife, and we both agreed, those guys are toast, they’ll never see the prison again, not alive…
Damn were we wrong, both are in custody and now facing additional charges, granted cap/murder is one of the charges but that doesn’t make it any easier for the family and other officers…
PCness is over-running this nation and I believe it will be the death of America…
It’s a shame when this nation worries about “cruel and unusual” punishment for murderers. I believe in an eye for an eye punishment. In how the criminal murdered his victim, is how he should be executed.
The one thing I admired about Muslim nations was that they didn’t pussy-foot around with criminals and murders. We saw first hand what happens when a criminal gets caught stealing in Saudi Arabia.
Cruel and unusual? There isn’t such a thing as Cruel and Unusual punishment when compared against the crime. If the equivallent form of punishment is doled out matching the crime commited there shouldn’t be an issue.
I would consider lethal injection far to nice a method.
The most humane way of executing someone is still a rope and a tree. Quick and clean and they are in hell instantously.
Once I had misgivings about capital punishment, that lasted about 15 seconds. As far as how it is done? I really could have cared less. I will not go into details, but I was on a jury that sent a creep to the chamber for a hideous crime.