Justices hear challenge to lethal injection

For Christ's sake, just stop killing people and then we won't have to have this stupid debate!

What is wrong with us, in this country?

We are the only "first world nation' that still executes people. Are we so sick with a desire for vengeance.

This is not a Christian nation! It would be laughable to even hear that suggested to be true, if it were not so damn sad. Christian is as Christian does.

Oh and by the way, the inhumane treatment of prisoners in Iraq comes as no surprise to many who know what goes on in the jails and prisons in this country.

Some times I think my head will explode from over exposure to congnitive dissonance and hypocrisy in this country!

KR Washington Bureau 04/26/2006 Justices hear challenge to lethal injection:

"WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appeared split Wednesday over how a lower court should handle a Florida death row inmate's contention that the state's method of lethal injection is unconstitutional because it could cause him great pain.

Clarence Hill, who shot and killed a Pensacola police officer in 1982, has exhausted the appeals regularly afforded to inmates who challenge their sentences. But his lawyers say his complaint about the lethal injection procedure is a civil rights claim that doesn't directly challenge his sentence, just the way it's going to be carried out. The state says essentially that Hill's claim is a ruse, an indirect way back into court to stop the state from taking his life.

Two lower courts have rejected Hill's claims, but that has happened against the backdrop of a mounting national debate over how cruel or humane lethal injection is. Eight executions have been delayed this year to consider the issue, thanks in part to medical studies that suggest some inmates may feel terrible pain when intravenous drugs are used to end their lives. "