Comments on: June 16 roundup

By: Todd Rogers

Todd Rogers — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:58:52 +0000

I think the Che poster story is more about irony than contradiction.

By: mojo

mojo — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:13:44 +0000

And anyway, ol’ Ernesto didn’t approve of State killings.

He liked to do the job himself. Bullet behind the ear.

Maybe the Judge would approve that method, it’s painless (they say)…

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:33:30 +0000

There’s no contradiction between having a Che Guevara poster and striking down part of a death penalty statute. To begin with, people often admire someone without agreeing with his or her stance on every issue. In any case, the judge did not strike down the death penalty in Ohio. What he actually did is strike down the three-drug protocol. He explicitly permitted the state to continue to use the death penalty so long as it used a massive dose of a single drug. I think that people are making the false assumption that everyone who opposes the three-drug protocol does so as a ploy to end the death penalty entirely. That isn’t true. I for one consider the three-drug protocol unconstitutionally cruel but do not oppose the death penalty in principle.

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:02:00 +0000

Because it’s Europe, and they don’t take crime remotely seriously? Even murder convictions don’t really result in much punishment, really.

By: Ted Frank

Ted Frank — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:39:05 +0000

The real issue in the UK story is why Clark was walking around a free man at the age of 40 after four convictions for fairly egregious felonies.

By: OBQuiet

OBQuiet — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:38:49 +0000

The UK story is truly abominable but it seems a he said/she said sort of thing. It isn’t clear whether the local council is trying to deflect blame for their own error or not.