I read this on the Texas Moratorium Network's blog and it just made me sick. California has been desperately scrambling to get the drug Sodium Thiopental in order to carry out executions. ACLU of Northern California recently obtained emails sent by a number of prison officials as they tried to find a supply of the drug, at one point even moaning that Texas isn't sharing their supply, boo hoo. But now unfortunately California has found a small ammount of the drug and Scott Kernan, California's undersecretary for Corrections and Rehabilitation had this to say to his Arizona counterpart after taking the delivery.
"You guys in AZ are life-savers... Buy you a beer next time I get that way."
Life-savers. Because they supplied a drug which will be used to
kill a person. I don't see the logic there. In fact, the hideous disregard for a human life makes me really sick.
If you're life-saver for helping kill a person, why are we killing killers in the first place, doesn't that make them
life-savers too?
And if the cost of a human life is a
beer, what the hell is this world coming to?
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