{"id":343015,"date":"2018-01-09T14:52:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/call-lethal-injection-the-vile-torture-it-is\/"},"modified":"2018-01-09T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T13:52:11","slug":"call-lethal-injection-the-vile-torture-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/call-lethal-injection-the-vile-torture-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Lethal Injection the Vile Torture It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1515285734917_4216\">\n<div id=\"attachment_98851\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98851\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-08-at-4.49.42-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"379\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a New Year\u2019s Eve display of liberal newspaper death penalty abolition harmony \u2013 buoyed by the release of the Death Penalty Information Center\u2019s (DPIC) annual report evidencing another year in the long-observable trend of capital punishment\u2019s disuse and disfavor in America \u2013 both the<em> Washington Post<\/em> and <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2019s editorial boards published opinion pieces arguing for an end to what the <em>Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/31\/opinion\/capital-punishment-death-penalty.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-editorials&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=editorials&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=2&amp;pgtype=sectionfront\">called<\/a> a \u201ccruel and pointless\u201d practice; one that is \u201csavage, racially biased, arbitrary,\u201d and which \u201cthe developed world agreed to reject\u2026long ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On her well-followed Twitter account, intrepid anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean opined that the<em> Times <\/em>\u201copened the New Year with a bang: a full-throated exhortation against the death penalty. The editorial hit all the right notes.\u201d While I hardly disagree with Sister Helen on anything concerning death penalty abolition \u2013 and, despite all the truthful and pointed invectives the <em>Times<\/em>\u2019s editorial board did skillfully use to highlight capital punishment\u2019s moral depravity \u2013 I still preferred when newspaper editors used the word \u2018torture\u2019 to describe to the American people what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/2016\/04\/08\/death-penalty-alabama-whats-really-like\/82489992\/\">lethal injection<\/a> really is.<\/p>\n<p>For example, take the column titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/26\/opinion\/lethal-cruelty.html\">Lethal Cruelty<\/a>\u201d published by the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2019s editorial board over a decade ago, in April 2006: Its final paragraph, a frustrating-beyond-belief marker of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/01\/09\/call-lethal-injection-the-vile-torture-it-is\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | CC BY 2.0 In a New Year\u2019s Eve display of liberal newspaper death penalty abolition harmony \u2013 buoyed by the release of the Death Penalty Information Center\u2019s (DPIC) annual report evidencing another year in the long-observable trend of capital punishment\u2019s disuse and disfavor in America \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}