Courts Block 7 Executions Set For 11-Day Span In Arkansas

[Danmel]

Source: NPR

A judge in Arkansas has issued an order blocking the state from executing six men next week, starting Monday night.

The state's compressed schedule had drawn widespread attention — for both the pace of the executions and the manner in which the state obtained the drugs it planned to use in the lethal injections.

The temporary restraining order by Pulaski County Judge Wendell Griffen followed one earlier Friday by another court, the Arkansas Supreme Court, which had stayed one execution. According to his attorney, Scott Braden, Bruce Ward is mentally ill and "has no rational understanding of the punishment he is slated to suffer or the reason why he is to suffer it."

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[Stonepounder]

1. I looked at the original group.

The shortest time on death row was 16 years. All the others were over 20 years. I'm sorry, whatever your position on the death penalty, you simply are not the same person after 20+ years as you were when you committed the crime and at that point the death penalty makes no sense. That said, there are way too many innocent people on death row to begin with.

[redwitch]

2. Agreed.

Mass execution seems so unAmerican ya know?

[SCantiGOP]

3. Yeah, but

Mass murder, if it is in somebody else's country and your poll numbers are in the toilet, is apparently now the Trump Doctrine.

On edit, sorry for hijacking the thread. Any actions against the death penalty are very
good news.

[jgmiller]

4. I'm against the death penalty

but after reading through the list I have to admit they are a pretty disgusting group and the world is no worse off with them gone.

The two main reasons that I'm against the death penalty are:

1) Too many people are later found to be innocent and were only convicted because the police or prosecutor were lazy. This is especially true for non-death penalty cases. I swear if I were a cop I don't know how I could live with myself if I didn't exhaust every possible avenue of investigation.

2) It's impractical and costs too much money. I mean it's just a ridiculous waste of time and money to try and execute someone. Throw them in jail without any possibility of parole and be done with it. Why spend so much money trying to kill someone when the alternative is probably worse than being dead? You have the rare individuals like Manson that are so crazy they don't care if they are locked in a cell all day but for most it would be worse than death.