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Q, Lct~al 1rjcction 7:'" -/) r r nt/r z The Supreme Court finds no Nowadays you can find almost The FAA admits ) reason to discount the practice in anything through the Internet oversights and coverups in Sometimes it is /) .J capital punishment page 3 - even murder page 4 air triffic control page 6 a problem page 18 ( SUMMER 2008 • VOLUME 4 • ISSUE 7 • AMP.UTDALLAS.EDU 2 CoNTENTS S UMMER 2 008 • VOLUM E 4 • Issue 7 I2 Power of Potatoes In 1his Issue. • • The Answer is Under Your Feet! S oc i AL CoMMEN TARY BY RICHARD BADGETT The Global Hunger Crisis Supreme Court Pardons Lethal 3 Injections Food Riots and American Diets How painful is too painful for our nation's criminals? BY STEPHANIE SHASTEEN BY DEVARATI DAS A RTS L EISURE Making a Killing on Craigslist & 4 The person behind Sale-9482372 may be The Spin Cycle slashing more than prices. 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The respondents of this case, John Rees, the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Correction, and others by devarati das representing the Commonwealth of [email protected] Kentucky, disputed the assertion that the three-drug cocktail creates a substantial For the very first time, the Supreme enough risk of inflicting pain to be taken Court heard a case challenging the as a violation ofthe Eighth Amendment's constitutionality of the most clause. In addition, the Commonwealth widely and publicly accepted of Kentucky argued that the infliction form of capital punishment. of pain, especially in the case of an Lethal injection, the execution, does not necessarily equate preferred method in to "cruel and unusual punishment," thirty-six ofthe thirty­ but simply punishment, which is seven states that still naturally bound to be a little painful. consider the death As Justice Scalia reiterated in January's penalty to be legal, oral arguments for the petitioners: bas been identified ~e have been discussing this on many occasions as though that is a constitutional as a cruel and unusual requirement. Where does that come method of punishment. from, that you must find the method Such a label causes many of execution that causes the least pain? to consider this particular We have approved electrocution, we method a violation of the have approved death by firing squad. Eighth Amendment of the United I expect both of those have more States Constitution as well as the IF YOL.l possibiMes of painful death Seventeenth Section of the Kentucky than the protocol here. CAN Kl~~ A MAN, Constitution. Where does this come In the case Baze v. Rees, Ralph YOU CAN TAK5 A N55D~5- from that in the execution Baze and Thomas C. Bowling appealed GTOP BE: tNG SL.lCH of a person who has been to the Supreme Court after their case convicted of killing people against the procedure of the three-dose we must choose the least injection, which was upheld by the painful method possible? Is that Kentucky Commonwealth, had been somewhere in our Constitution?" ruled against in both the circuit court It seems the Court recognized the and Supreme Court of Kentucky. lack of severe pain from the injections Until recently, the Federal Court has Illustration by Jordon Batura during the defense oral arguments. refused to see cases regarding the I am in agreement with the Court lethal injection method. That changed that injections simply are not a reason the morning of April 16, 2008, with execution case, declaring that death by Even after these decisions, death row for complaining when on death row. a strong, seven to-two decision. The firing squad was constitutional. By the inmates strive to find a constitutional Furthermore, I believe Justice Scalia was Supreme Court announced that they 1920s, though, the courts of about ten violation in the default method. correct in pointing out that there is no, found no reason to consider lethal states found the death penalty to be "Condemned inmates," the Supreme and there should not be any, requirement injection too painful or a violation of the illegal. In 1972, the Supreme Court itself Court warned, "will never run out of for a method of execution to be painless. Eighth Amendment. placed a suspension on the death penalty ideas for changes to the procedures, It just can't be torture. It almost defeats Public support for the death penalty as it was used in thirty-five of fifty states, drugs or equipment used during lethal the purpose of capital punishment if and the methods used has fluctuated ruling it unconstitutional. After forcing injection." In fact, it is interesting to death doesn't feel like a punishment. The over the last two centuries. In reality, this states to change their capital punishment note that new, improved forms of capital Court in their decision to uphold the public support bas spawned or dampened statutes, the Supreme Court reinstated punishment are found due to the ongoing current version of lethal injection shows the appearance of death penalty cases in the death penalty. By the late 1900s, search for a more painless method than that the insubstantial risk of pain does the Supreme Court. It has been over a all but one state had made the method the last. As was stated in Baze v. Rees, not equal a need for concern. • century since in the 1879 case Wilkerson of lethal injection a default, while "The evolution of execution methods in v. Utah when the Supreme Court ruled electrocution and/or hanging were still this country reflects a continuing quest Devarati Das knows what's going ()tl. directly regarding an Eighth Amendment options in a few states. to find a more humane means of killing, DisctiSS this artie!~ at !J1/J,ft,utdq/IM.edu! 4 SociAL CoM M ENTARY SUMM ER. 200 8 • VOLUME 4 • ISSU E 1 Making a Killing on Craigslist 1he person behind Sale-9482372 may be slashing more than prices of hiding their real life from everyone! else, people spill out their most hidden Your scent gives desires for hapless store clerks everywhere in the hope of subverting all known fact: you away - m4w - of sexual selection and winning a matt by jordan youngblood through sheer creepassery. Check out thu jrv03l0000utd.Ulas.eclu 99 (Dallas) recent example of model lady-wooing OL the Dallas site: Here recently J happened to come "In a hot tub above fort worth- m4w across an arricle on MSN discussing a - 23. we both got our cloths wet. 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