Notable editorials on lethal injection scrummages

Besides making great fodder for a modern-day Kafka novel, the litigation scrummages over lethal injection also provide grist for the editorial mill:

• The San Francisco Chronicle today has this editorial entitled "Kinder, gentler executions." Here's its opening: "As California readies for its third Death Row execution in two months, the spectacle of killing an inmate just keeps becoming more absurd."

• The Bradenton Herald today has this editorial entitled "Sad, not cruel." Here are key passages: "No question the nation could use a serious, in-depth debate on the death penalty.... But the issue here is lethal injection. The cruel-and-unusual punishment argument is really grasping at straws by death penalty opponents."

Some related prior posts:

• And the lethal injection litigation played on...
• Back to the lethal injection litigation
• More lethal injection scrummages
• Still more on the lethal injection scrummages
• Another lethal litigation update
• Judge places restrictions on California execution method
• Another front in the lethal injection wars

UPDATE: How Appealing here has a collection of links to the latest news and developments in the California lethal injection litigation.