Some good nooze for a change ... although in criminal-friendly Md.,
this won't change a thing.
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Supreme Court Ruling Opens Door for States to Resume Executions by
Lethal Injection
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
WASHINGTON — After a nationwide halt, U.S. executions are all but
sure to resume soon following a splintered Supreme Court ruling
Wednesday that approved the most widely used method of lethal
injection.
Virginia immediately lifted its moratorium; Oklahoma and Mississippi
said they would seek execution dates for convicted murderers, and
other states were ready to follow after nearly seven months without an
execution in the United States.
Voting 7-2, the conservative court led by Chief Justice John Roberts
rebuffed the latest assault on capital punishment, this time by foes
focusing on methods rather than on the legality of the death penalty
itself. Justice John Paul Stevens voted with the majority on the
question of lethal injections but said for the first time that he now
believes the death penalty is unconstitutional.
The court turned back a challenge to the procedures in place in
Kentucky that employ three drugs to sedate, paralyze and kill inmates.
Similar methods are used by roughly three dozen states.
Death penalty opponents said challenges to lethal injections would
continue in states where problems with administering the drugs are
well documented.
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The nazi republicans who would sell their own children to a sex-cult will
try it on you.
Let me know if it's painful.
Got a relative in the big house? Your boyfriend?
Now here's a Repub who tried to spare the life of a murderer of two
teen girls:
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Some good news for a change. Bush has a left-wing bleeding heart for
Mexican terrorists. This of course comes as no surprise given that he
has a history of jailing border agents for doing their job against
Latino drug lords.
More importantly, this decision rejects the view that the US States
must follow international law.
The three dissenters were the limousine communists, Breyer,
Bader-Ginsburg the pro-pedophile, and Souter. No surprise there.
GO TEXAS! YOU ROCK!
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High court backs Texas in dispute over Mexican death row prisoner
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — President Bush overstepped his authority when he ordered
a Texas court to reopen the case of a Mexican on death row for rape
and murder, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.
In a case that mixes presidential power, international relations and
the death penalty, the court sided with Texas and rebuked Bush by a
6-3 vote. (snip)