Tinkering with death
By Ellen Goodman | Friday, October 12, 2007 | The Boston Globe
“…The argument about the ways and means of execution reflects our great ambivalence – the thrust and the recoil – between the desire for punishment and the revulsion from inflicting cruelty, pain, death. I have long shared that ambivalence. But as the Supreme Court takes up this issue again, I remember what Justice Harry Blackmun said after a 20-year struggle about just ways to administer the death penalty: ‘From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.’….”…BS
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