Posted by
Rich on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:08:29 AM
This story and photograph is from USA Today. Amazing how images of Che Guevara and Barack Obama keep showing up together on the walls of Obama supporters. Get the picture?
ELYRIA,
Ohio (AP) — A judge in Ohio says the state's method of putting
prisoners to death is unconstitutional because two of three drugs used
in the lethal injection process can cause pain.
Lorain
County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said Tuesday the state's lethal
injection procedure doesn't provide the quick and painless death
required by Ohio law.
Burge said Ohio must stop allowing a combination of drugs and focus instead on a single, anesthetic drug.
The ruling is likely be appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court.
Ohio has executed 26 inmates since it resumed putting prisoners to death in 1999.
Che Guevara background:
Here is an excerpt from an article about Che Guevara by Alvaro Vargas Llosa titled, "
The Killing Machine: Che Guevara From Communist Firebrand to Capitalist Brand".
"In
April 1967, speaking from experience, he summed up his homicidal idea
of justice in his “Message to the Tricontinental”: “hatred as an
element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a
human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an
effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine.” His
earlier writings are also peppered with this rhetorical and ideological
violence. Although his former girlfriend Chichina Ferreyra doubts that
the original version of the diaries of his motorcycle trip contains the
observation that “I feel my nostrils dilate savoring the acrid smell of
gunpowder and blood of the enemy,” Guevara did share with Granado at
that very young age this exclamation: “Revolution without firing a
shot? You’re crazy.”
At other times the young bohemian [Guevara]
seemed unable to distinguish between the levity of death as a spectacle
and the tragedy of a revolution’s victims. In a letter to his mother in
1954, written in Guatemala, where he witnessed the overthrow of the
revolutionary government of Jacobo Arbenz, he wrote: “It was all a lot
of fun, what with the bombs, speeches, and other distractions to break
the monotony I was living in.”