A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk was put to death Wednesday evening, becoming the 30th person executed in the U.S. this year and the first since Tennessee's failed attempt to administer a lethal injection to Christa Pike a week ago.
It shifted public opinion on medically assisted death. The legislation took another decade or so but the images forced everyone to rethink their stance. I remember rethinking the stance my religion had forced me to believe even as a kid.
We need photos of her recovering in the hospital. Let this be capital punishment’s Terri Schiavo moment.
It probably will be. I’ve heard questions about injection’s efficacy before so this will probably be the death knell for it.
In what way? I don’t think that case really broke any new ground.
It shifted public opinion on medically assisted death. The legislation took another decade or so but the images forced everyone to rethink their stance. I remember rethinking the stance my religion had forced me to believe even as a kid.