One of the ploys that opponents of the death penalty use to try to block it -- given that the American people are solidly against their real position -- is to drag out the appeals process for decades and then claim that it is cruel to keep people on death row for decades.
This is called the Lackey claim for Justice Stevens's solo opinion in Lackey v. Texas, 514 U.S. 1045 (1995). After Justice Stevens retired, Justice Breyer took up the cause. He reiterated his position last night in the last minute appeal of Georgia murderer John Wayne Conner. But he is still alone. No other justice joined his dissent.
Conner was executed at 12:29 a.m. Friday with the single-drug method using pentobarbital, Rhonda Cook reports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Georgia can apparently still get pentobarbital, the preferred drug for this purpose, though most states cannot.
The lethal injection drug shortage is entirely artificial and due in large part to the misinterpretation of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by the D.C. Circuit in Cook v. FDA, 733 F.3d 1 (2013). Congress can and should correct that misinterpretation with a simple fix.
This is called the Lackey claim for Justice Stevens's solo opinion in Lackey v. Texas, 514 U.S. 1045 (1995). After Justice Stevens retired, Justice Breyer took up the cause. He reiterated his position last night in the last minute appeal of Georgia murderer John Wayne Conner. But he is still alone. No other justice joined his dissent.
Conner was executed at 12:29 a.m. Friday with the single-drug method using pentobarbital, Rhonda Cook reports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Georgia can apparently still get pentobarbital, the preferred drug for this purpose, though most states cannot.
The lethal injection drug shortage is entirely artificial and due in large part to the misinterpretation of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by the D.C. Circuit in Cook v. FDA, 733 F.3d 1 (2013). Congress can and should correct that misinterpretation with a simple fix.
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