Today the Supreme Court has ruled that lethal injections, if properly carried out, are a "humane" means of ending a condemned individual's life.
It is the correct and appropriate ruling.
Two convicted murderers, Ralph Baze and Thomas C. Bowling, were able to get their case heard by the high court, claiming death by lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Since the case went to the Supreme Court last September, no executions have been carried out in the U.S.
Dennis Briscoe said it best. He was just 14 when Baze used an assault weapon to kill Briscoe’s father an uncle who were law enforcement officers in Kentucky.
Briscoe said, “What they should really consider is the pain my father and uncle went through when that happened. We should all be so lucky as to just fall asleep when we die."
Here are details from ABC and the Los Angeles Times.
In January, I discussed on WISN and also blogged about the absurdity of brutal, cold-blooded murderers claming a lethal injection was cruel and inhumane punishment
