11/10/17

Jackley is itching to kill

South Dakota enjoys killing and has built an economy around death.

A state-ordered lethal injection isn't criminal justice; it's suicide by cop. Hell is life in the South Dakota State Penitentiary or in a Colorado Supermax.
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says cases like the Briley Piper case are taking up too much time in our legal system. 16 years after the [sic] being sentenced to death for the murder of Chester Allan Poage, Piper is still making his way through court. Piper is currently on death row for the March 2000 murder of Poage.
Read the rest here.

Bob Gruss is Jackley's fellow member of the Church of the Holy Roman Kiddie Diddlers. He recently wrote an essay on capital punishment in the Rapid City Journal.
The death penalty is always an inhumane and inappropriate punishment. I pray that South Dakota joins the many other states that respect the dignity of life by ending the death penalty — in particular for those with severe mental illnesses.
The litigation costs of trying a capital crime persuaded Nebraska to abandon state-sponsored killing: how is the price of putting people to death either conservative or sustainable?

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