In recent years, the deep-pocket pro-killer lobby has been barraging states and the court system with frivolous attacks on lethal injection procedures, designed to freeze the implementation of the death penalty since anti-death penalty forces lose when voters or juries get to make the decisions. They have met with some success, since liberal judges and Governors can hide behind these technical issues while protecting murderers. In Maryland, Governor Martin O’Malley has effectively killed the death penalty in his state, linked to a spurious lethal injection procedure controversy ginned up by his liberal judicial allies.
And now these same forces are in Arizona, trying, among other things, to keep a murderer of a 9 year-old girl alive for a while longer. The killer is presently watching cable TV and eating ice cream, some TWENTY-TWO YEARS after murdering a little girl no one remembers.
But on Wednesday, attorneys in the federal Public Defender’s Office filed a motion to hold off on issuing death warrants until the state Department of Corrections can prove it has sufficient quantities of the drugs mandated for lethal injection.
Two of the drugs used in the three-drug procedure are nationally in short supply, and executions in Kentucky and Oklahoma have been postponed because of the unavailability of sodium thiopental, a 70-year-old barbiturate used alone or in combination with other drugs for executions.
Of course, it is essential to note that in recent years, death penalty opponents successfully lobbied for states to adopt lethal injection as the method of executing convicted killers. Now they are saying the very procedure they demanded is unworkable.
With anti-American billionaire George Soros among those funding anti-death penalty groups, expect these scorched earth stall tactics to continue. In the meantime, the best the rest of us can do is remind voters it is the Democrats behind these pro-killer shenanigans, and where judges must face the voters, hold them accountable too when they play these games to deny even a shred of justice to murder victims and their families.
Category: Death penalty
Tags: Arizona, Kentucky, lethal injection, Martin O'Malley, Maryland, Oklahoma