Supreme Court to Weigh in On Lethal Injection

[freedom78]

High court to mull legality of lethal injections
Kentucky cases could affect how inmates are executed across U.S.

WASHINGTON - 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 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.

Baze and Bowling say the procedure inflicts unnecessary pain and suffering on the inmate.

2004 lawsuit
The two inmates sued in 2004 and a trial was held the following spring. A state judge upheld the use of lethal injection and the Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed that decision. The appeal taken up Tuesday stems from that decision.

?This is probably one of the most important cases in decades as it relates to the death penalty,? said David Barron, the public defender who represents Baze and Bowling.

U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger ruled last week that the Tennessee?s method of lethal injection is unconstitutional and ordered the state not to execute a death row inmate. The state is still deciding whether to appeal the judge?s ruling, but agreed to stop a pending execution.

[norway]

the procedure inflicts unnecessary pain and suffering on the inmate.

KIlling a human being is never defended, peridod. It isn't humane ways to take someone's life with force.?
Sad countries as Irak and USA still practises death penalty.

[Izzy]

lol - cant wait for the Supreme Court to rule that lethal injection is a HUMANE punishment!

They should end the death penalty now, any judgement in favour of the death penalty makes them accesories to murder

[freedom78]

The death penalty in this country is slowly fading away.  Illinois and Florida placed voluntary moratoriums on capital punishment in the last few years, and other states have done so at the direction of their judiciaries.  Of course, Bush still wants to execute retarded children, so who knows.

[fuckin crazy]

Thomas Clyde Bowling walked up to a car at 06:00 one morning just before daylight; sitting inside were a young man, his wife, and their young child. They were just about to open their family's Dry-Cleaning business for the day. He was seeking revenge for his and his family's arrest for drug crimes after his family's activity was reported to police. He then proceeded to open fire killing the man and his wife, and shot their two year old son. Ed and Tina Early died that day. Their two year old son recovered. Generally, I'm against capital punishment, but if anyone desevered it, it is this contemptable piece of shit.

[polluxlm]

Capitol punishment is irreversible. That's reason enough it shouldn't be allowed.

[The Dog]

Capitol punishment is irreversible. That's reason enough it shouldn't be allowed.

um, so is muder.

anyone that takes a life doesn't deserve to have their own. 

[polluxlm]

Capitol punishment is irreversible. That's reason enough it shouldn't be allowed.

um, so is muder.

And you want to commit another one without being sure the person is guilty?

anyone that takes a life doesn't deserve to have their own. 

So....that makes for one hell of a list I'd say. The whole administrations in all the worlds countries for starters.

[freedom78]

For me it isn't a question of what someone "deserves."  Murderers are bad people.  Duh. 

I'm just against a state killing its people.  Slippery slope, and all that.

[GNRreunioneventually]

i say fuck all those expensive poisons and bring back ol' sparky............ watch'em twitch

[Dr. Blutarsky]

I think lethal injection is more humane than 'Ol Sparky. When our pets become too old and feeble to go on we give them a lethal injection.

If we decide to eliminate the death penalty, we will have to build more prisons that no one wants next to their house with taxpayer money or let certain criminals out early because of overcrowding. There is no easy answer, you can't just do away with the death penalty without planning for it.

[The Dog]

Capitol punishment is irreversible. That's reason enough it shouldn't be allowed.

um, so is muder.

And you want to commit another one without being sure the person is guilty?

anyone that takes a life doesn't deserve to have their own. 

So....that makes for one hell of a list I'd say. The whole administrations in all the worlds countries for starters.

its a fine line, but there is a distinction between killing and murder.  Killing in a time of war (even a made up bullshit one) is different than a rape/kidnap/torture/murder.

[freedom78]

If we decide to eliminate the death penalty, we will have to build more prisons that no one wants next to their house with taxpayer money or let certain criminals out early because of overcrowding. There is no easy answer, you can't just do away with the death penalty without planning for it.

Yeah...thank God that no one gets released early now, what with the death penalty and all.   

There were 53 executions in 2006, and there have been about 1100 since it was reinstated in 1976.  Compared to the number of incarcerated individuals, that's literally about as inconsequential as you can get.  Death row inmates have almost nothing to do with prison overcrowding, and executions do almost nothing to ease the problem (in fact, you might be able to argue that they do, in fact, do nothing, as death row inmates are kept separate in many prisons, and an execution doesn't mean a free cell for Bob the petty thief).

[Lisa]

If you knowingly and willingly take another life,however malicious , you should be prepared to lose your own in return...not saying it is a perfect system or world but don't you think that even the most sordid and evil of people are basically selfish and given the choice of life or death that they would choose life? therefore it could be the most basic of deterrent? The amount of tax dollars going to house these dispicable characters is astronomical...but I suppose the argument will always continue, two wrongs do not make a right..

[norway]

If you knowingly and willingly take another life,however malicious

Like you seem to support now...

Killing people is wrong, only people that should sterilise themself supports murder.
hope to see the cruelty ends

[Lisa]

If you knowingly and willingly take another life,however malicious

Like you seem to support now...

Killing people is wrong, only people that should sterilise themself supports murder.
hope to see the cruelty ends

as to you quoting me, I haven't a clue what you are trying to say...in fact, do you know me well enough personally to make any assumptions regarding what I believe? and for the record, I am for Capital Punishment,always have been, always will.Clear enough?

[Booker Floyd]

For me it isn't a question of what someone "deserves."  Murderers are bad people.  Duh. 

I'm just against a state killing its people.  Slippery slope, and all that.

Indeed.

[Booker Floyd]

Killing in a time of war (even a made up bullshit one) is different than a rape/kidnap/torture/murder.

Why?  Because it is self-defense?

[polluxlm]

its a fine line, but there is a distinction between killing and murder.  Killing in a time of war (even a made up bullshit one) is different than a rape/kidnap/torture/murder.

Only in our minds.

[norway]

If you knowingly and willingly take another life,however malicious

Like you seem to support now...

Killing people is wrong, only people that should sterilise themself supports murder.
hope to see the cruelty ends

as to you quoting me, I haven't a clue what you are trying to say...?

People that supports murder, death penalty, killing other human beings are evil, bloodhungry, dispicable scum that should never have children.
Clear enough?

Sad to see counties still practises this, they're all the same shit that stoned the 19 YO irakish girl do death.