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Commentary on the Ohio Botch

By Steve Hall

"Ohio must fix its execution process or end it," is the title of Phillip Morris' Cleveland Plain Dealer column.I'm not advocating that the condemned should be drawn and quartered or burned at the stake, but it's time to turn back the clock a bit on capital punishment. The death penalty was once administered with ropes, guns and electric chairs, not technicians with syringes. What we have now is a gentle form of euthanasia designed to ease the conscience of civil libertarians or those who want to take out the garbage in the most humane way possible. We kill with just a bit too much kindness. We keep capital punishment on the books, but we've created an unacceptable process, which resulted in the macabre drama that played out on Ohio's death row on Tuesday, a drama that exposes us as gentle, and inept, killers...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).