Forty people are on federal death row. Biden is under pressure to commute their sentences (read story here). I’ll skip over the usual anti-death penalty arguments: Botched executions, racial bias, the danger of executing an innocent person, etc. The best argument for leaving no one on federal [...]
Posts Tagged ‘capital punishment’
September 26th, 2024 - 7:41 pm § in Law and Courts
Do nitrogen gas executions work?
Of course they work. The method has been used twice now, and both those inmates are dead. So far, Alabama is the only state to execute anyone with nitrogen gas. It didn’t go off very well either time. The first the inmate “appeared conscious for several minutes into the execution, and sh[...]
October 11th, 2018 - 1:08 pm § in Misc.
Washington joins states without a death penalty
Washington became a non-death penalty state Thursday when the state supreme court declared the state’s capital punishment statute “invalid because it is imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased manner.” The ruling effectively converts the state’s eight outstanding death senten[...]
February 5th, 2015 - 11:16 am § in Misc.
Liberal Hypocrisy: When Capital Punishment is Justified
Jordan’s eye-for-an-eye response to the Islamic State The question asked by some liberals is : What purpose did hanging these two convicts serve? Is capital punishment worse than life long imprisonment? Should life long imprisonment be made more unpleasant .. perhaps by putting the perps in cage[...]
March 18th, 2014 - 3:06 am § in Misc.
A Letter From Ray Jasper, Who Is About to Be Executed
Texas death row inmate Ray Jasper is scheduled to be put to death tomorrow. He has written a letter to the GAWKER website that everyone should read. This letter has been written by a man who has been on death row for a number of years. He was found through a database called Prison Search […][...]