States using lethal injection to execute killers struggle to get execution drugs because pharmaceutical companies won’t provide them. So prison officials get creative. They go to compounding pharmacies that create the drugs for them. It doesn’t always work as it should. In fact it often [...]
Posts Tagged ‘death penalty’
May 10th, 2021 - 10:49 pm § in Law and Courts
If Arkansas executed the wrong man and the real killer is caught, can he claim double jeopardy?
Debra Reese, 26, didn’t die of natural causes. She was beaten and strangled in her home. After losing the 2020 election, Trump went on an execution spree, relieving 6 federal death row inmates of their lives before incoming President Biden could get a chance to spare them. In 2017, Arkansas Go[...]
September 23rd, 2020 - 1:19 am § in Law and Courts
He had it coming
This article is news with not-so-liberal commentary. William Emmett LeCroy (photo), 50, was executed on Tuesday, September 22, 2020, at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, for the 2001 rape and murder of a Georgia nurse he believed had put a hex on him. (Read story here.) LeCroy was a neighb[...]
September 11th, 2020 - 4:49 pm § in Law and Courts
Fla. killer of 9-year-old gets death
This article contains news with liberal commentary. A Florida judge has affirmed a jury’s death sentence for a 41-year-old Jamaica-born man convicted of raping and killing his neighbor’s 9-year-old daughter (photo, left), ABC News reported on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. The defendant’s[...]
April 3rd, 2019 - 11:10 am § in America
On the Death Penalty
I agree with the Supreme Court that there ought not be a requirement that execution of criminals be painless. I also oppose the death penalty. I suspect that death is for many murderers neither a punishment or a deterrent. Arguments against the death penalty are overwhelming. Certainly our[...]
November 12th, 2017 - 11:58 am § in Schools & Colleges
How to Make Our Schools Safe
ProTecht, a company in Oklahoma, has created yhe Bodyguard Blanket to protect kids during school shootings. The blanket made from the same materials used in military and law enforcement body armor be carried at all times as a backpack. The Bodyguard comes with a price tag under $1,000. Even [...]
March 17th, 2015 - 5:13 pm § in Misc.
Maricopa County injustice system reaps another black eye
When you mention law enforcement in Maricopa County, Arizona, most people think of Crazy Sheriff Joe Arpaio, infamous for his racism, far-right politics, and anti-Obama birther nuttery. But this case arose from the Phoenix Police Department, not Arpaio’s shop, before being mishandled by Maric[...]
January 15th, 2015 - 6:07 pm § in Misc.
Would you execute this inmate?
Barry Van Treese, a Tulsa motel owner, was brutally beaten to death with a baseball bat in a motel room. His killer, Justin Sneed, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The prosecutor dropped the death penalty against Sneed in exchange for his testimony that Richard Glossip hired him to kill Van Trees[...]
February 18th, 2014 - 8:26 pm § in America
It is hard to get a scrip to kill folks in Missouri!
Missouri scrambles for lethal drugs Apothecary Shoppe agrees with the lawyers for inmate scheduled to be executed to stop providing lethal dose of pentobarbital. Funny, a gentle death is not considered cruel and unusual but amputation or someones hand id?[...]
A Death Penalty Reprieve That Should Make You Think