How many times are courts going to have to rule on this? Practically every state that has the death penalty has entertained half a dozen of these idiotic, obstructionist lawsuits. There's no new matter of law to rule on; it's stare decisis. Nuke this slob, and his 14 colleages as well!
Romell Broom, who raped and stabbed to death a 14-year-old girl, is one of 15 Ohio inmates claiming the procedure may cause prisoners to suffer.
Of COURSE it's going to make them suffer. Nothing in the Constitution prohibits "suffering." The injunction is against "cruel and unusual punishment." Period. Punishment, by its very nature, is cruel to some degree; that's why they don't call it "reward." But there's nothing notably cruel or unusual about lethal injection. It's by far the most humane way extant to put a person to death.
Well said.
> It’s by far the most humane way extant to put a person to death.
I disagree. There are too many tales of long, long minutes being taken to find a vein. Hanging in the UK used to be complete within a dozen or so seconds of the opening of the prisoner’s cell door. Quick, clean and more humane.
IMHO murderers ought to suffer. Why should they be able to rape, torture etc and then get a painless death? Who cares if they suffer as long as the end outcome is that they are dead? I guess I must be barbaric because I really don’t care if they hurt a few minutes, hang for an hour or die from a volley of bullets. They had no feelings for their victims so why must we find a “kind” way to end their lives? I hate life in jail without parole too because there is always the chance they can get out.
Yep, additionally these actions are not appeals, (they are done and over with) and so the judge does not have to entertain them.
I suspect that a judge could issue an injunction forbidding the condemned from filing these actions, and I'm sure the prison authorities would help the prisoner comply.
The injunction technique is how Terri Schiavo was killed and the Bush brothers were snookered.
Seems the judge is the problem.