Lethal injection is the wrong debate

Ray Krone, the subject of Jim Rix's true crime book, Jingle Jangle: The Perfect Crime Turned Inside Out, yesterday published an article in the San Francisco Chronicle.

The article, Lethal injection is the wrong debate, begins:

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in Baze vs. Rees, which challenges the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection.

While the court wrestles with technical issues concerning the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, there's a much larger reason our country is rethinking the death penalty: the possibility of sentencing to death and executing an innocent human being.

and concludes:

So while the U.S. Supreme Court contemplates whether or not killing a person with a particular combination of chemicals is cruel and unusual punishment, all of us should recognize a much larger, more obvious fact: If sentencing to death and possibly executing an innocent person isn't cruel and unusual punishment, nothing is.

Quite literally, I'm living proof of that.

Way to go, Ray! Thanks for your eloquent fight against America's continuing to flaunt the civilized world by putting people to death.