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Fearing Too Much Justice

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That's the title of must-read commentary by Berkeley Law prof Elisabeth Semel for the National Law Journal.  LINKNow that the U.S. Supreme Court has approved Kentucky's administration of lethal injection in Baze v. Rees, prosecutors, especially in the Death Belt, are tripping over themselves to roll the gurneys back into the execution chambers. Within hours of the opinion's release, politicians made announcements similar to the one delivered by California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Today's U.S. Supreme Court decision supports California's lethal injection protocol and allows our case to move forward." Never mind that executions in California are on hold not because of Baze but because a state court ruled that the corrections department had failed to promulgate its protocol according to the requirements of the state's administrative procedures act...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).