Africa, debate grows in the United States over quarantining Health Care Workers returning from the region. A Doctors Without Borders letters just back from sierra leone is being held in isolation in a new jersey hospital despite showing no signs of having ebola. She says shes going to sue over her treatment. We will speak to a nurse just back from guinea and economist Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute at Columbia University which has a team in guinea. We will also speak to John Hopkins University professor nancy kass about the use of experimental drugs to treat ebola patients. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The governors of new york and new jersey are facing federal pressure to reverse new quarantine rules on medical workers returning from west africa. Under the policy, arriving passengers with the risk of ebola exposure will be placed in a 21 day quarantine. Illinois hasnt limited a similar policy.
Weighing whether to indict officer Darren Wilson for shooting Michael Brown dead. Then to the making of the warrior cop. Do you think theres any validity to the criticism that the United States is increasingly becoming a police state . I think there is some validity to that. Oakland, california. The convention were swat teams from around the bay area and around the world are going to be competing around the bay. Mother jones reporter shane bauer goes inside the urban shield trade show where local Police Departments flushed with department of Homeland Security cash can buy armored vehicles, sniper rifles, drones and more. Shane is the journalist who was held for almost two years in iran. Then to a texas man on trial for filming the police. We will go to austin to speak to Antonio Buehler of the peaceful streets project who was arrested after filming the police. A jury will decide this week if he committed a crime or not. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracyn
The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment and accounts of Kenneth Smith’s last moments simply show that there is no humane way to take someone’s life.