[SmithL]

Follow-up to this morning's story: State appeals Workman execution delay

[SmithL]

Sutton, Jeffrey S.

Born 1960 in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Nominated by George W. Bush on January 7, 2003, to a seat vacated by David A. Nelson; Confirmed by the Senate on April 29, 2003, and received commission on May 5, 2003.

Education:
Williams College, B.A., 1983

Ohio State University College of Law, LL.B., 1990

Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Thomas Meskill, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1990-1991
Law clerk, Associate Justices Lewis Powell and Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States, 1991-1992
Private practice, Columbus, Ohio, 1992-1995, 1998-2003
Adjunct professor of law, Ohio State University College of Law, 1994-
State solicitor, Ohio, 1995-1998

Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male

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NOTE: This Judge wrote the majority opinion, overturning Clinton appointee, Todd Campbell.

[dynachrome]

All these appeals about “lethal injection” are pure BS. I have been under the surgeons’s knife several times and the stuff hits you and you are out. Add the lethal stuff after that for an execution and you won’t feel a thing!

[ConservaTexan]

(in tune)
Na-na, na-nah. Na-na, na-nah. Hey-ey-ey. Good-bye.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Let’s hope they get on with it, in a “workmanlike” manner.

[Dacus943]

"unconstitutional pain and suffering"

Little help here!

What part of the Constitution covers this?

[mkjessup]

The problem I have with all of this wailing and shrieking about ‘unconstitutional pain and suffering’ is that the death penalty SHOULD be all about pain, suffering, agony, *excruciating* punishment, why?

Because the more that society makes the death penalty nice and comfy, nothing worse than going to sleep and never waking up, the less it will act as a deterrent to crime.

There is a reason for the electric chair, the gas chamber, the firing squad (used to be Utah’s method), the hangman’s noose, and that is to strike terror into the condemned, fear into anyone who might entertain the thought of committing a like crime, and send a message that horrific crimes can and will bring a horrific punishment.

Sanitizing the death penalty is counterproductive to the concept of making the punishment fit the crime. If some SOB murders an innocent person in cold blood, they deserve no consideration whatsoever, and should be dispatched from this planet ASAP, and without a nice painlessly injected nighty-nite and a breath mint beforehand.