And it's ridiculous that the court came to such a conclusion, especially in light of the far more reasonable conclusion the South Dakota court reached.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised though - South Dakota is a surprisingly efficient and competent death penalty state, almost uncharacteristically so. With so few death sentences, you'd think South Dakota would be the same as states such as Idaho and Montana. Yet they're as keen on executing sentences as GA and MO. I shouldn't be surprised, given Montana's apathy, that its courts are as useless as the rest of the capital punishment apparatus in that state.
Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.
"They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters
Like I said after those two executions that’s it for Montana the people of that state don’t want to sentence people to death anymore and furthermore the courts tied those executions up for 10 years. Yet another useless “conservative” jurisdiction.
Montana Lawmakers Oppose More Death Penalty Drug Options
By Associated Press
Seven Republicans joined Democrats in the Montana Senate to kill a bill that would have given the state more latitude in selecting drugs to carry out lethal injections, as companies restrict access to drugs used in executions.
“I was blown away,” by Thursday’s 24-26 second-reading vote, Democratic Sen. Diane Sands of Missoula said Friday. She spoke against the legislation, arguing there aren’t drugs available to carry out lethal injection in ways that don’t result in cruel and unusual punishment.
The death penalty has been on hold in Montana since 2015, when District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock said the state’s plan to use pentobarbital to render an inmate unconscious did not meet state law requiring the use of an ultra-fast-acting barbiturate.
Attorney General Austin Knudsen requested a bill with a less specific protocol — one that would require the state to carry out the death penalty through “an intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death.”
“The companies that make ultra fast-acting barbiturates figured out that states were using it to inflict the death penalty and as a matter of corporate protest, I guess you would say, they stopped making it and they stopped importing those drugs,” Knudsen told the House Judiciary Committee in February.
During the Senate hearing Thursday, Republican Sen. Brad Molnar of Laurel said he was opposed to the bill, noting that he was swayed by the fact that people have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death.
“Whether you kill somebody cruel and unusually or hit ‘em with a lightning bolt, they’re dead,” Molnar said, adding the Senate passed a bill on Monday to provide financial compensation to people who serve prison time after being wrongly convicted.
“When you separate body and soul, there is no money settlement,” he said.
Republican Sen. Keith Regier of Kalispell countered that the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony about drugs that can be prescribed by physicians to allow terminally ill people to die peacefully.
“So there are substance or substances sufficient to cause death out there that, they can go peacefully,” he said.
While lawmakers can ask for a reconsideration of bills that fail on second reading, Sands said she doesn’t believe that will happen because seven Republicans voted against it. The result would leave Montana without a way to carry out the death penalty for two more years.
A separate bill to eliminate the death penalty was tabled in the House Judiciary Committee. The Legislature has rejected similar bills for at least the past two decades.
Montana has two men facing the death penalty, William Jay Gollehon and Ronald Allen Smith. The state last carried out an execution in 2006.
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2021/04/1...-drug-options/
Great job Republicans. Thanks again for showing the country why we should never take you seriously ever again. Who needs democrats with diet democrats like these?
I hereby motion to rename conservatism in this country acquiescence. They don't conserve anything. All they do is acquiesce.
Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.
"They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters
“Conservatives” as Mike says don’t conserve anything. They don’t stand for anything and that’s why the keep losing elections and they will continue to lose elections. A true conservative is hard to find anymore.
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