The uncertainty gives them ammunition. How many executions they will actually succeed in delaying is unknown.
These are all cases where we already have the right guy and the sentence is long overdue.
People can exchange notes with him if they want, but I don't think it really adds anything. The question is whether he deserves the punishment he was sentenced to, and I don't find much enlightening in these discussions.
Everybody's scratching their heads trying to figure out what's going on.
There is practically no chance that lethal injection as such would be thrown out. I would like to see the uncertainty done with.
They are all jumping on the band wagon. They have an issue with more meat than they had before.
There's just no reason for that length of a delay in that kind of case where you know you've got the right guy.
A humane method does not necessarily mean a pain-free method. It doesn't bother me if, in the process of execution, a person feels some pain. ... The idea that a murderer is entitled to a painless death, which relatively few of us are going to have, I don't think is sustainable.
I have no doubt that every inmate nearing execution will glom onto this. But I can't imagine the Supreme Court requiring a state to do something that can't be done.
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