Firing squad vs….

I suggest  these inmates’  lawyers are simply trying to delay their death penalty sentences being carried out,  but in point of fact, a skilled marksman would deliver a quick and painless death with a neck or head shot.  Even a less skilled one could put three or four shots in the heart and death would still be faster  and less painful than the modern, so-called humane methods.  Firing squads were made obsolete because people decided they were cruel.  As usual,  policy-makers were dead wrong.

 

 

Snake eating its tail…

Apparently ISIS takes a dim view of its fighters trying to abandon their commitment,  since it’s being reported  that the group executed 100 foreign fighters in Syria.    On one hand,  I’m delighted ISIS is killing its own.   On the other,  it would be nice if some escape to go home and tell everyone how brutal ISIS is.   I’m trying to view this news as a win-win for freedom.

Death penalty freeze…

Why is the Justice Department having DEA seize  sodium thiopental?

The claim is that there are concerns about the overseas source of the drug,  which is the first one used in a three-part combination for executions.   But neither DEA nor Justice will comment on the probe.

The practical effect is a freeze on executions in the states which used the drug but haven’t been able to obtain an alternative chemical.   Governance by fiat,  I think.