Comments on: Corrections will not appeal lethal injection decision http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/2009/12/04/corrections-will-not-appeal-lethal-injection-decision/ Covering Kentucky politics and government Mon, 21 May 2012 07:56:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Zach Everson http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/2009/12/04/corrections-will-not-appeal-lethal-injection-decision/comment-page-1/#comment-30968 Zach Everson Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:34:11 +0000 http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/?p=9078#comment-30968 The death penalty is too broken too fix--regardless of how it's implemented. The appeals process required to deliver a sentence that can never be redacted make the death penalty far more expensive than life in prison without parole. And even then you run the risk of executing an innocent person, as Texas did with Cameron Todd Willingham. Prosecutors who try for death penalties needlessly add extra stress to the lives of murder victims' family members, as they know they're thrusting countless court dates upon them in pursuit of a sentence that's unlikely to be fulfilled in Kentucky. The death penalty is too broken too fix–regardless of how it’s implemented. The appeals process required to deliver a sentence that can never be redacted make the death penalty far more expensive than life in prison without parole. And even then you run the risk of executing an innocent person, as Texas did with Cameron Todd Willingham.

Prosecutors who try for death penalties needlessly add extra stress to the lives of murder victims’ family members, as they know they’re thrusting countless court dates upon them in pursuit of a sentence that’s unlikely to be fulfilled in Kentucky.

]]> By: LoneWolf http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/2009/12/04/corrections-will-not-appeal-lethal-injection-decision/comment-page-1/#comment-30917 LoneWolf Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:26:02 +0000 http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/?p=9078#comment-30917 I wholeheartedly agree. IF lethal injkection is so painful for the inmates sentenced to death? Then just do away with it altogether and go back to a tried and proven method. The Electric Chair and be done with it. There are little kids starving to death that could use the money being wasted on deathrow appeals for food, clothing and housing. Do it like Texas, and set up an "Express Lane" and get it rolling. JMO I wholeheartedly agree. IF lethal injkection is so painful for the inmates sentenced to death? Then just do away with it altogether and go back to a tried and proven method. The Electric Chair and be done with it. There are little kids starving to death that could use the money being wasted on deathrow appeals for food, clothing and housing. Do it like Texas, and set up an “Express Lane” and get it rolling. JMO

]]> By: Barry Powell http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/2009/12/04/corrections-will-not-appeal-lethal-injection-decision/comment-page-1/#comment-30898 Barry Powell Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:04:24 +0000 http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/?p=9078#comment-30898 can we plug in Ole Sparky while we await a decision on injection method? can we plug in Ole Sparky while we await a decision on injection method?

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