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So Governor Terry McAuliffe has set
up a rather false choice for members
of the Virginia General Assembly:
mandate secrecy as to who provides
the cocktail of drugs issued during an
execution, or get rid of the death
penalty in Virginia. From the
Washington Post:
McAuliffe, a Catholic who is personally
opposed to capital punishment, said he
was trying to find a way to avoid the use
of the electric chair, which he called a
“reprehensible” method of execution
Ve take human beings, we strap them into a chair, and then we flood their bodies
with 1,800 volts of cit, 5 pain until they die,
McAuliffe told reporters. “Virginia citizens do not want their commonwealth to
revert back to a past when excessively inhumane punishments were committed in
their name.”
ig them to
“All I'm doing today is providing a humane way to carry out capital punishment
here in Virginia so we have options,” he said. “If they do not take it up, I want to be
clear; they will be ending capital punishment here in Virginia.”
Would McAuliffe care to describe the humane method of killing another
human being? Perhaps by injecting someone’s body with barbiturates, then
injecting them with another cocktail of drugs to paralyze the body, then another
and final drug that imposes cardiac arrest?
.. but I digress.
The prospect of “secrecy” in this instance isn’t the simple donning of a mask
over the head of the executioner. To the contrary, it’s the concealment of blame
—a state protection when botched executions occur (and sadly, they do indeed
occur).
The problem here is that it’s not a question as to whether or not pharmaceutical
firms want to deliver lethal injections — Florida, Georgia, and Texas all do so,
with California and four other states offering medically assisted suicide. The
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question here is whether or not McAuliffe’s amendment creates more problems
than it solves.
This is where the principle of transparency is so absolutely critical, and more so
where the life of a human being is being held in the balance.
More to the point, it’s not as if the Virginia Department of Corrections has had
difficulty obtaining the drugs required for lethal injections. The reason why
there’s a concern (at least on the surface) is that pharmaceutical firms are
concerned that the process for obtaining the drugs for lethal injection not only
run counter to the FDA-approved uses for the products themselves, they might
very well be violating the Controlled Substances Act in doing so.
As a Catholic, I have an inimical opposition to the death penalty in the modern
era. It is not necessary in an era of modern incarcerations, our certainty in all
cases is far from absolute in order to impose the maximum penalty of law, and
in all but the most extreme instances the maximum penalty of death
simply does not live up to the standard of justice most Americans have come to
expect from our jurisprudence system.
One’s personal opinions and faith aside, McAuliffe’s concerns at this point
aren’t with the manufacture of lethal drugs, but rather with the manufacturing
of controversy where none need be.
Moreover, the strike against transparency is what ought to concern every
Virginian of goodwill, regardless as to where you stand on the death penalty,
and especially when it concerns the maximum penalty of the law.
McAuliffe ought to know better.
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