Posted on 10/27/2010 11:16:52 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON — Justice Elena Kagan cast her first vote on the Supreme Court late Tuesday, joining the liberals in dissent when the high court cleared the way for the execution of an Arizona murderer.
The 5-4 ruling overturned orders by a federal judge in Phoenix and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that had stopped the execution by lethal injection of Jeffrey Landrigan.
His lawyers, in a last-ditch appeal, had raised questions about one of the drugs used in the execution. Since the only U.S. manufacturer of sodium thiopental had suspended production, Arizona officials said they had obtained a supply of the drug from a British company.
The judge in Phoenix put the execution on hold because she said she was "left to speculate" whether this drug was safe for its intended use.
But state lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, which lifted the judge's order.
"There is no evidence in the record to suggest that the drug obtained from a foreign source is unsafe," the justices said, and "speculation cannot substitute for evidence that the use of the drug is 'sure or very likely to cause serious illness and needless suffering'."
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We’re one Supreme Court justice away from being ruled by an unstoppable judicial tyranny of marxists.
Wanna bet that Kagan now knows which lethal drug to use on the expendables? (That would be us).
There’s nothing wrong with avoiding extra suffering. We shouldn’t torture people to death. But there’s no reason to insist that the execution method be absolutely painless 100%. That’s just an unreasonable standard.
That is a nice cartoon picture of Lindsay Grahamnesty...notice the absence of balls.
The scummy murderer was executed last night by Arizona!!!!
Sorry Elena!!!
Its intended use is to kill the bastard so what's the problem?
I don't know if it's an unreasonable standard or not. If we can do it for a reasonable price, why not? There should be a balance between painless as possible, quick as possible and cost effectiveness.
The issues haven't been about whether it's a reasonable price. They've been about whether it gets done at all.
!!!?!???
Some sh*t you just can't make up.
It's designed to KILL!!!! How "safe" does it have to be??
There might be a case where some of us could administer lethal injection, I just can’t say, but generally, No. Couldn’t do it, so that makes me oppose the death penalty. If one can’t do it, in the name of God, it’s fudging to blithely support someone else doing it for me, in my place.
On the other hand, the liberal judges fudge on law to replace it with legislating from the bench. (I don’t know how Catholics even can serve on the bench without recusal on death cases.)
Why...it might KILL HIM!!!!
Oh, the hugh manatee!!!
I’m not volunteering to execute someone, but I have no problem with it being done.
And if I was called on by my state to do it, I would. As long as I was convinced that he was guilty.
True, but I'm just saying if there is a painless option out there, I'm fine with the courts dictating the use of that painless option as long as it's cost is reasonable.
Kagan has suggested that all surgeries and dental procedures be suspended lest someone be given a general anesthetic.
Unsafe....wouldn't be prudent.
We have to execute people in a way that does no lasting injury to them.
If there is another apppointment for this president, I swear there will be civil war if the republicans don’t filibuster until he picks someone who actually follows the constitution. I don’t care if it ties up the Senate until 2012.
Let me get this straight. She is concerned about the safety of a drug designed to kill someone undergoing a lethal injection.
She could actually make Biden look like a genius by comparison.
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