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Sixteen minutes into last week's botched lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, the warden closed the blinds on the windows to the execution chamber and turned off the sound so that witnesses could not see Clayton Lockett writhe or hear him moan. The procedure, designed to resemble a medical treatment -- albeit one with an involuntary patient and a very low probability of recovery -- had begun to look uncomfortably like the cold-blooded killing of a helpless person. Since Lockett himself was guilty of such a killing, having been convicted of shooting a 19-year-old woman during a burglary and...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The European Union has asked Connecticut's governor and parole board to delay or halt the planned execution of serial killer Michael Ross, the Dutch government said Thursday. Ross' execution, scheduled for Jan. 26, would be the first in New England since 1960. The Netherlands currently holds the rotating European Union presidency and issued a statement on behalf of all 25 EU member countries. The EU, which opposes capital punishment, said in a letter to U.S. authorities that a freeze on carrying out death sentences was a "first step" toward abolition. It asked Gov. M. Jodi Rell, a...

Daughters teen site. She's trying to teach liberal kids to think, but there's a lot of them. They're all using the left's talking points. She's attempting to fight them off on her own. Could use a friendly "FReeping" to come to her aid. She's asking FReepers to say "Help is on the way." LOL. She's 15.The topics are abortion and the death penality.

Timothy Stuart Ring sits on Arizona's death row, convicted of murdering an armored car driver. His death penalty case, scheduled to be heard day by the U.S. Supreme Court, could affect nearly 800 death row inmates in nine states. Depending on how the court rules, some or all of those inmates could have their sentences reduced to life in prison, and some could be eligible for parole. At issue is the question of whether judges can impose the death sentence without a recommendation from a jury. Arizona is one of five states --- plus Montana, Nebraska, Colorado and Idaho ---...