Posted on 10/28/2010 5:41:14 AM PDT by jda
Justice Elena Kagan cast her first recorded 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.
A judge had put the execution on hold because she said she was "left to speculate" whether this drug was safe for its intended use.
"There is no evidence in the record to suggest that the drug obtained from a foreign source is unsafe," the justices said . . ."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I'm sure all Harvard law graduates and students will be proud.
This would be hilarious is not such a comment on the liberals in this country. They are worried about a drug used to kill having side effects?????????????????
That's what her kind are having us do with commiecare.
Oh give her a break,,she was probably worried about long term side effects. Hah!
No one is surprised. Let’s hope Zero doesn’t get another bite at the SCOTUS. He will appoint another ‘enemy within’ for life.
I bet she’ll make sure they use a clean needle, too.
Only in the twisted liberal mind would this even be thought. Heaven forbid we administer lethal drugs to execute someone if those drugs have nasty side effects.
Maybe the nine black robes could all agree on the "safety" of this approach...
Five of our highest court’s finest legal minds voted to uphold FDA safety rules for execution injections?
“Warden, is that drug sa .... “
Seriously, do you wonder why they swab the guy’s arm before they insert the IV...? Can’t risk infection? Next they’ll be banning transfats at the final meal.
If MissY K would check with any reputable Rabbi I think she would be reminded-what is written “Thou shalt not suffer a murderer to live.” Now If she would check with any Constitutional Attorney that could match John Eidsmoe she might discover that our law was predicated on the idea that
human law ,if valid, must not contradict the laws dictated by God,Himself.I think that accurate reflection of American law as reflective of Montesquieu, Locke James Wilson etc.Was this murderer Miss K. was afraid to do justice with did he execute the same love of life-or fear of death she exhibits?
She is to the LEFT of Obama!
WHY we worry about whether or not a convicted CRIMINAL has a pleasant death or not is beyond me. It’s insane.
Arizona Killer’s Last Words in Execution Chamber:
‘Boomer Sooner’
Published October 27, 2010
| FoxNews
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“Well, I’d like to say thank you to my family for being here and all my friends, and boomer sooner,” he said before being at a state prison in Florence at 10:26 p.m — making him the state’s first execution since 2007.
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Landrigan, who was sitting on death row since his 1990 murder conviction, was executed after a stay issued by a federal judge was lifted by the U.S. Supreme Court. That stay was based on questions about the effectiveness of the state’s supply of an execution drug in short supply.
Arizona obtained a supply of the sedative drug sodium thiopental from Great Britain
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Landrigan had a troubled childhood, being given up for adoption as an infant by his birth mother and not knowing his biological father until he was an adult. By then, the father was on death row in Arkansas. He died there in 2005 of natural causes.
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Dyer, whose bloody body was found face-down on the bed in his ransacked apartment, was known for flashing a wad of cash on paydays as he sought homosexual sex, according to trial testimony.
Evidence against Landrigan included admissions to an ex-girlfriend and a psychologist and also physical evidence that included fingerprints, a crime-scene footprint that matched Landrigan’s sneakers and blood on a shirt that Dyer owned but that Landrigan was wearing after the killing. Also, Dyer had called a friend from his apartment and said he was having sex with “Jeff.”
(Guess it was ROUGH HOMO SEX!)
Court battles leading up to the execution centered on Arizona’s resorting to use of a source other than the sole U.S. manufacturer for an execution drug in short supply nationally and on Landrigan’s push for courts to consider DNA evidence.
Arizona said Tuesday that it got its sodium thiopental from Great Britain, the first time a state has acknowledged obtaining the drug from outside the United States since the shortage began slowing executions in the spring.
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The concern about the drug didn’t seem to come to fruition. Members of the media who witnessed the execution described it as “calm” and “mellow” by media members who witnessed it.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/27/arizona-executes-inmate-stay-lifted/
Aren’t you relieved that this homosexual murdered had a pleasant death?
As Dennis Miller said: “Fred Flintstone in Wilma’s clothes”.
Those words don't even make sense.
The ruling is ridiculous on BOTH sides.
“...whether this drug was safe for its intended use.”
If ideas may be thought of as ‘mental furniture’ this one is a folding chair.
BTW... why not go ahead and use the drug...’so, then we can find out what’s in it’??????????????????
It doesn’t sound like his victim was fortunate enough to have had a pleasant death.
When you see something like this and there’s not a unanimous decision, you know that something is wrong with the system.
Did anyone in their right mind expect and Obama apointee to be pro death penalty? Or conservative or even moderate?
whether this drug was safe for its intended use.
“There is no evidence in the record to suggest that the drug obtained from a foreign source is unsafe,” the justices said . .
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The Onion ????
Scrappleface ????
Correct me if I’m wrong but isnt the idea behind a lethal injection the intention of it being UNSAFE for the recipient ???
Like isnt the intention one of certain death ???
No ???
OK
Never mind ...
Topics around the Kagan Dinner Table:
"Alger Hiss Innocent."
"Rosenbergs Innocent."
Brother gave a great Communist Speech
Trotsky-ites must die.
Just too damn bad that no elected Republican in the Senate could think of these discussion topics during the confirmation hearings.
Kagan? Kommie.
Friggin’ idiots. I would be ashamed if I thought seriously about something that stupid.
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