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Article: EDITORIAL: The state can wait to exact its blood: Virginia needs to act humanely and stay executions until the Supreme Court rules whether lethal injections are cruel.(Editorial)
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2007
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Sep. 28--The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide if lethal injections are cruel and unusual punishment. Hours later, Texas executed an inmate. Virginia should not treat this court review so cavalierly.
The commonwealth's next execution is scheduled for October, long before the court will rule on whether the three-drug cocktail -- that sedates, paralyzes and then stops the heart -- can cause the condemned to suffer excruciating pain. Attorneys for Christopher Scott Emmett (who used a brass lamp to bludgeon a co-worker to death in Danville) plan to ask Gov. Tim Kaine to delay the execution.
Kaine should grant this request and refuse to allow any ...