With all the blood already on his hands?
"Obama, ‘troubled’ by flawed Okla. execution, calls for review" by David S. Joachim | New York Times May 03, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday that the botched execution of an Oklahoma convict this week that left the man gasping and moaning before he died of a heart attack was “deeply troubling” and that he would ask the Justice Department to review the episode....
He then went and signed off on a drone strike based on his kill list.
Beyond the question of whether faulty lethal injections amount to cruel and unusual punishment, Obama said other problems cited by human rights groups in the application of the death penalty also troubled him, including racial bias and prosecutorial errors that lead to the execution of innocent people.
“All of these, I think, do raise significant questions about how the death penalty is being applied,” Obama said....
He played the frikkin' race card, hey, and was Lockett's guilt in question?
Obama said that he would discuss death penalty issues with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to determine steps that government might take to prevent errors in capital cases....
Related: Justice Department to consider wide clemency
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released a statement Friday saying that Lockett’s suffering might amount to “cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment according to international human rights law.” It called on the United States to impose an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty.
That's a GOOD IDEA!
Of course, the country is full of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment from authority, but we have a myth in our mind of what the is the country and thus are above all that.
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I don't know how you tarnish something that doesn't exist considering
this mass-murdering government that goes to war on lies blared by the
mouthpiece media. That is what I condemn with no further delay even if they have to change methods. The "we botched it" no longer suffices as an excuse.
NEXT DAY UPDATE: If only Massachusetts were more like Oklahoma
