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I like the part where his attorney appealed because the method of execution (injection) would be too painfull for his client........
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WHAT??????
Cruel and unusual seems to be in the eye of the beholder. The death penalty is clearly provided for in the US Constitution and in the Bible as well. Objections that are based on either of those fly in the face of the text, as well as historically accepted meanings, of both. At the time the Constitution was written the common methods of execution were hanging and shooting. The authors of that document clearly had no problem with either. As for accepted methods of execution during the periods covered by the Bible, the less said the better. Legal and moral objections to capital punishment that depend on them must depend on arguments that cannot be sustained by either.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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