If anyone in the Bush administration steps in front of a microphone and open their mouths, you just KNOW the bullshit is about to pour forth! On Bush’s approval of the Army’s request to execute a soldier [Pvt. Ronald Gray] convicted of rape and murder:

“While approving a sentence of death for a member of our armed services is a serious and difficult decision for a commander-in-chief, the president believes the facts of this case leave no doubt that the sentence is just and warranted,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. (emphasis mine)

You would know how funny and how outrageous a comment that was if you really knew just how “Shallow And Callous” Bush has been in his past. I think such things gives the man a hard-on.

Just and warranted

Impeachment is just and warranted too. But, thanks to a pack of spineless democrats, (who, if you asked me, should be horse-whipped all the way back to their home states), have taken impeachment off the table.

Kinda funny really… One one side of the aisle, we have a bunch of whiny-assed crybabies, pissing and moaning to have everything their way. On the other side of the aisle are a bunch of babies too weak to even lift their heads. What a fucked country this is.

Surprise, surprise! Bush’s conservative Supreme Court is pro-pain, pro-death. I guess we now know how they feel on the issue of torture.

Supreme Court Allows Lethal Injection for Execution

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Kentucky’s method of putting criminals to death by lethal injection, not only clearing the way for Kentucky to resume executions but ending an unofficial moratorium in the 35 other states that have the death penalty.

However, Justice John Paul Stevens, while concurring reluctantly with the judgment of the court, wrote that he now believed capital punishment itself is unconstitutional, and that Wednesday’s ruling might serve to reignite the debate over whether it should exist in the United States.

By 7 to 2, the court rejected challenges to the Kentucky execution procedure brought by two death-row inmates, holding that they had failed to show that the risks of pain from mistakes in an otherwise “humane lethal execution protocol” amounted to cruel and unusual punishment, which is banned by the Constitution.

Their stand on torture should have been a giveaway.

Baze v. Rees, 07-5439

Justices Divided Over Lethal Injections

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared divided Monday over whether the drugs commonly injected to execute prisoners risk causing excruciating pain in violation of the Constitution.

Several justices indicated a willingness to preserve the three-drug cocktail that is authorized by three dozen states that allow executions. Such a decision would allow lethal injections, on hold since late September, to resume quickly.
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Recent executions in Florida and Ohio took much longer than usual, with strong indications that the prisoners suffered severe pain in the process. Workers had trouble inserting the IV lines that are used to deliver the drugs.

Scalia, Roberts and Alito have no problem lavishing last-minute pain onto prisoners. Big surprise! Republicans are the pro-torture party, after all. An even bigger surprise… the Bush administration agrees!

(Please feel free to close your mouths now)

What on earth could this governor be thinking? What would be the objection to finding out with certainy if this man is guilty or innocent? The death penalty needs to be put to death.

Unless Alabama Gov. Bob Riley or courts intervene, Thomas Arthur will be executed tomorrow despite his claims of innocence and the possibility of DNA testing in his case. Less than two months ago, Darrell Grayson was executed after Riley refused to step in and allow DNA testing that could have proven Grayson’s guilt or innocence. The Innocence Project advocated for DNA testing in the courts and through the political system in both cases. But over the last few days, Riley has refused to even learn more about how DNA testing could prove Arthur’s innocence.

“As we told the governor’s senior advisers, 42 states in the country now allow post-conviction DNA testing. In 42 states, Darrell Grayson or Thomas Arthur would have been able to get DNA testing that could resolve their cases and maintain public confidence in the criminal justice system. Governor Riley, who has refused DNA testing before executions twice in the last two months, has made it clear that he isn-t concerned with getting to the truth in these cases,” said Innocence Project Co-Director Peter Neufeld.

More at the Innocence Project

ATLANTA - A Georgia man scheduled to be executed tonight for killing a police officer in 1989 won a temporary reprieve Monday evening after key witnesses from his trial recanted their testimony before the state’s parole board.

After a nine-hour clemency hearing, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles granted Troy Anthony Davis, 38, a 90-day stay while it evaluates and analyzes evidence.

By the time Davis heard the news, he had already been moved into a solitary “death watch” cell at the state prison in Jackson, about 45 miles south of Atlanta. Davis, who was to be killed by lethal injection at 7 p.m., still faces execution unless the parole board commutes his sentence to life in prison.

“We’re no longer under the gun,” said Davis’ defense attorney, Jason Ewart. “But we still have more convincing to do. It’s too soon for a celebration.”

A parade of witnesses joined Davis’ mother, sisters and pastor behind closed doors Monday. After five hours with Davis’ supporters, the board spent nearly four hours with prosecutors and the mother, widow and children of slain Officer Mark Allen MacPhail.

The five-member board deliberated for less than an hour.

More at the LA Times