I don’t know how you can read about something like this and not come to the conclusion that capital punishment — state-sanctioned and premeditated murder — is not cruel and unusual and that is should not be prohibited under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Here is what I said about the lethal-injection issue earlier this year in The Progressive Populist.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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Well we can agree on this one. Not only is it \”cruel\” in the context of the Eight, but it is capricious! I would think that a better argument would be the Project Innocent. Their results absolutely condemn the entire system. If we can\’t we have any reasonable assurance that we are punishing guilty people then how can we support this \”non sense\”! In this case, as usual, the \”gooferment\” can NOT do this right either!