From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Big Mongo  wrote:   
      
   >https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/marcellus-wiliams-supreme-   
   >court-execution-spree.html   
      
   >We're Witnessing the Worst Execution Spree in Three Decades   
      
   That's a terrible headline. The complaint doesn't appear to be about   
   convictions on weak evidence or lousy defenses, although it hints at   
   actual innocense for two convicts, nor that the execution methods will fail.   
      
   Everything is lumped together.   
      
   Miscarriage of justice is its own issue that should be taken seriously by   
   everybody with respect to all criminal cases, yet it gets disproportionate   
   attention in capital cases, and those who care about capital cases ignore   
   its implication elsewhere.   
      
   We had humane execution methods that we simply refuse to use.   
   Guillotin's method was a humane improvement over the axe.   
      
   The racism complaint doesn't compare facts of the crimes nor   
   circumstances of the perpetrator, just the usual selective use of   
   statistics.   
      
   >. . .   
      
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