Friday, August 1, 2014

Attorney General calls for transparency over execution drugs

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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