Posted on 01/26/2015 11:40:09 AM PST by GIdget2004
Reacting to the news that the Supreme Court will take up a case concerning Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol, the state Attorney General on Monday said he will ask the Justices to temporarily postpone the scheduled execution of three death row inmates involved in the challenge.
Attorney General Scott Pruitt said that he thought the Supreme Court will ultimately uphold the constitutionality of the protocol, but that while the case is under consideration, he would ask the justices to grant a stay of the executions. "The families of the victims in these three cases have waited a combined 48 years for the sentences of these heinous crimes to be carried out," Pruitt said, but he added that the State has an obligation to "ensure justice in each and every case."
At issue before the court is the efficacy of one of the drugs, midazolam, used in Oklahoma's three drug protocol. Lawyers for the inmates argue that the drug violates the Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment because the drug fails to maintain unconsciousness.
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Time to go back to ballistic lead injections.
Switch to a lead-copper combination injection. Full metal jacket. Problem solved.
said he will ask the Justices to temporarily postpone the scheduled execution of three death row inmates involved in the challenge.
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Whiskey Tango here. What’s he gotta asked the court to do ANYTHING?
If they state wants then dead, fin. Give them the needle. Now if the Courts interfere and delay/deny the executions; then you ask that the decision be overturned.
Or if it were me; I’d ignore any ruling that contradicts and conflicts with settled state law, and I’d put down the death row vermin.
“Whiskey Tango here. What’s he gotta asked the court to do ANYTHING”
Assuming you are asking why he has to ask to get them stopped. He has no legal authority to stop them.
So who wants to stop them? That’s the key question.
I’m guessing libs are still wetting their pants over the Clayton Lockett execution.
Which I think served a good purpose.
“So who wants to stop them? That’s the key question.”
Per the article. The AG.
No one needs to work this hard to confuse me. Why doesn’t the OK AG simply confer with his governor and delay the executions?
What do you want on your tombstone?
I don’t trust the Government to not screw up 99.5% of what they touch. Including executions.
With modern technology, it could be entirely automated, nobody need be responsible for pulling the trigger.
Transport to Texas. We know what to do. Sure miss ole sparky.
With respect, somebody is always responsible - even an automated machine has to be turned on. I just don’t see that as a problem.
I intended to respond, but words failed me. Why not turn them lose and let them kill some more. First the United States under the muslim occupier of the White House said screw the citizens. Then the State of OK said, if Obama can get away with it so can we. The hell with protecting the public.
It is vital that states have some way around this interference, and the quickest, best way to do this is by authorizing a firing squad as a means of execution.
Importantly, judges should not be able to sentence a criminal to a particular means of execution. The means should be a decision of the authority conducting the execution. So if a judge issues a stay against a particular means of execution, then the execution should continue by a different means, while the judge considers the first means.
This separates the means from the condemned individual, so an appeal of means does not automatically suspend the execution.
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