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Next week, when the Supreme Court hears a case challenging the use of lethal injections, we may learn more about the legal limits to state-sanctioned pain.
  • Straw men

    Dr. Kevorkian and assisted suicide? Oh, please. Talk about straw men! Assisted suicide and execution have nothing to do with each other. Last I checked, execution wasn't voluntary like assisted suicide.

    Why do you argue that claims about lethal injection being inhumane are not advanced in good faith? One can both want to abolish the death penalty and also see problems with an existing execution method.