he had bad legal representation in the trial that got him the death penalty. but here, again, there s no basic question about his guilt. is the justice of the death penalty fundamentally about the goodness or badness of the person who is to be killed? is it about their guilt or innocence? or is it an intrinsic question about whether or not the governments that we build for ourselves are governments that should kill prisoners? to the extent that killing prisoners is one of the jobs we ask of state government employees, it s not an abstract thing. it is a physical job to be done. and it is a job that requires tools. georgia used a relatively new set of tools to kill troy davis last night. the state had its supply of sodium pentothal seized by the federal government earlier this year under suspicion that the state had imported it illegally from a fly by night drug distributor based out of the back of a driving school in west london. so instead of sodium pentothal, which the state used for
in the trial that got him the death penalty. but here, again, there s no basic question about his guilt. is the justice of the death penalty fundamentally about the goodness or badness of the person who is to be killed? is it about their guilt or innocence? or is it an intrinsic question about whether or not the governments that we build for ourselves are governments that should kill prisoners? to the extent that killing prisoners is one of the jobs we ask of state government employees, it s not an abstract thing. it is a physical job to be done. tools. is a job that requires set of tools to kill troy davis last night. thstate had its supply of sodium pentothal seized by the federal government earlier this year under suspicion that the state had imported it illegally from a fly by night drug distributor based out of the back of a driving school in west london. so instead of sodium pentothal, which the state used for decades to kill its prisoners, georgia has recently been using a drug
marcus ray johnson contends that he had bad legal representation in the trial that got him the death penalty. but here, again, there s no basic question about his guilt. is the justice of the death penalty fundamentally about the goodness or badness of the person who is to be killed? is it about their guilt or innocence? or is it an intrinsic question about whether or not the governments that we build for ourselves are governments that should kill prisoners? to the extent that killing prisoners is one of the jobs we ask of state government employees, it s not an abstract thing. it is a physical job to be done. and it is a job that requires tools. georgia used a relatively new set of tools to kill troy davis last night. the state had its supply of sodium pentothal seized by the federal government earlier this year under suspicion that the state had imported it illegally from a fly by night drug distributor based out of the back of a driving school in west london. so instead of sodium pe