An inherent problem with the death penalty was just made clear in South Carolina

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An inherent problem with the death penalty was just made clear in South Carolina

The recent revival of old-school execution methods is one of the most distressing signs that the United States is moving backward. While other countries eliminate the death penalty, in the U.S., we have leaders champing at the bit to kill death row prisoners. In response to arguments that lethal injection methods have inflicted lingering and excruciating pain on the executed, those leaders have turned back the clock to methods they can pretend as relatively painless. But it’s all a farce.To be clear, there is no acceptable way to execute a living, breathing human being. There’s no morally justifiable reason to do it. ..