What does it say about the U.S. when the person facing the prospect of execution has to take it upon himself to make sure it is done in a 'humane' way?
—Sir Henry Wotton, The Disparity Between Buckingham and EssexA Google search discloses that 108 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes and another 144 have outlawed it in law or in practice. Fifty five countries still use it to discipline those who have committed certain offenses. We are among the fifty five. Although we executed 11 people in 2021, we try to be reasonable in its application.
In the Georgia case the method of implementing the death penalty was considered in an opinion rendered at the end of the recent term of the United States Supreme Court. Michael Nance has been a prisoner on death row in Georgia for many years. He became eligible for the death penalty after he was found guilty of committing murder during a jar jacking and was sentenced to death. In Georgia those subject to the death penalty are put to death by means of lethal injections.
Georgia did not acquiesce in his suggestion and accordingly Mr. Nance brought suit in Federal Court to enforce his right to be killed by a firing squad. In considering his demand, the Federal District Court turned him down because, in non-legal terms, it said he waited too long to request a firing squad. Undeterred, Mr. Nance appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. That Court wasn’t concerned about the time it took him to file his appeal.
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