It is obvious the USA no longer cares about human rights or the dignity of a nation. Why continue pretending the USA is the moral country it once was? Torture was acceptable during Bush/Cheney administration. Extraordinary rendition victimized innocent people. Now, torture is being conducted as a desperate act of so called justice. Is there any doubt the USA has turned a corner on morality?
Don't count on the Supreme Court to stem any form of torture in the USA, it won't happen. The Supreme Court has proven to accept the idea money can achieve a citizen's standing and also passes on any judgement of carrying out torture in lieu of the death penalty.
The USA is experiencing the dissolution of government, hence, the anarchy of immorality is everywhere. The Supreme Court has proven itself hostile and anarchic when it comes to the people of this country, this is just another instance of same. The Republicans have learned the people of the USA become disgusted with their government and turn away from elections. That hostile attitude will continue to stall effectiveness of laws and will prohibit civility. Civility would prompt the people to demand more of the same in pride of the country, so don't expect it. Republicans want the power of the federal government long enough to dissolve it.
People consenting to torture as method to carry out the death sentence forget, those in prison are also citizens of the USA and to that lies the responsibility of the country. When Americans consent to torture as a death penalty resolve, the country is lost.
Don't count on the Supreme Court to stem any form of torture in the USA, it won't happen. The Supreme Court has proven to accept the idea money can achieve a citizen's standing and also passes on any judgement of carrying out torture in lieu of the death penalty.
The USA is experiencing the dissolution of government, hence, the anarchy of immorality is everywhere. The Supreme Court has proven itself hostile and anarchic when it comes to the people of this country, this is just another instance of same. The Republicans have learned the people of the USA become disgusted with their government and turn away from elections. That hostile attitude will continue to stall effectiveness of laws and will prohibit civility. Civility would prompt the people to demand more of the same in pride of the country, so don't expect it. Republicans want the power of the federal government long enough to dissolve it.
People consenting to torture as method to carry out the death sentence forget, those in prison are also citizens of the USA and to that lies the responsibility of the country. When Americans consent to torture as a death penalty resolve, the country is lost.
Update - 8:24 p.m.:
Arizona executed (click here) Joseph R. Wood on Wednesday afternoon, but the execution lasted for nearly two hours as Wood struggled to breathe, according to his attorneys.
“I’ve witnessed a number of executions before and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Dale Baich, one of Wood’s attorneys, told The Washington Post in a phone call. “Nor has an execution that I observed taken this long.”
Baich, still in the parking lot at the state prison in Florence, Ariz., described watching Wood “gasp and breathe heavily” for more than an hour and 40 minutes.
Wood was sentenced to death in 1991 for shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend Debra Dietz and her father, Eugene. He was killed by lethal injection at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence, Ariz., in an unusually drawn-out process that immediately brought to mind other incidents of lethal injections going awry.
