Following
another botched execution, Attorney General Eric Holder, who has been committed
to criminal justice reform issues during the second term of the Obama
presidency, has called for transparency with the drugs used to effectuate
execution. The full article can be read
here -- http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-execution-holder-20140801-story.html
- ixzz399GmBm7U.
Per the Chicago Tribune, Holder stated:
"There
may not be a legal requirement for transparency and talking about, describing
the drugs that are used," ... "But you sometimes have to go beyond that which is
legally required to do something that is right."…"For the state to
exercise that greatest of all powers, to end a human life, it seems to me, just
on a personal level, that transparency would be a good thing, and to share the
information about what chemicals are being used, what drugs are being used.”
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