This hardly qualifies as good or uplifting news, but once again, Americans have found new lows with the death penalty. Executing the insane IS in itself insane and puts us right up there with our good friends in Iran, China, etc. I fail to see how it makes us safer, more moral, or enlightened. It doesn't solve any problems, doesn't save us money, doesn't bring back one dead victim. All it does is make its supporters feel morally superior, I guess. I hate it and find it dehumanizing. If the death penalty is moral at all (and I can see arguments for it) then it must have meaning. Executing the retarded and insane don't qualify. At all. Shame. Shame.

Salon.com News | Ark. moves toward executing drugged man: "Nov. 4, 2003  |  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas' attorney general has determined that appeals have been exhausted for a death row inmate who is forcibly given anti-psychotic drugs that make him mentally competent to be executed, the governor's office said Tuesday.
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