Chip Franklin makes sense on something!
CityBeat‘s Arts editor, Kinsee Morlan, has been honing her hatred for KOGO 600 morning host Chip Franklin for months now, and usually for good reason. but I flipped to his show this morning and I couldn’t believe it: The old Chiperoo was making sense. At hand was the case currently before the U.S. Supreme court in which a Kentucky villain proposes that the 30-year-old technique of death by lethal injection may violate the Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and inhuman punishment (Even the American Veterinary Medical Association deemed it too cruel to use on animals.). I quote Chip: “If we’re going to have the death penalty, we have to do it right. That means getting the right guy and killing him the right way.” The Chipster thinks we should kill people in as painless a way as possible. While he and CityBeat diverge on the validity of capital punishment (he’s for it, we’re not), at least we can all agree that no matter how despicable the human being, if we’re gonna kill him, we should make it quick and painless. Well, I suppose by all, I mean, the liberal and conservative public. Apparently some of our Supreme Court justices (Second-to-last-paragraph of this story) think it doesn’t matter how we kill ‘em, so long as they’re dead.
It’s worth mentioning that there is a theoretically less cruel way of doing lethal injection, which i wrote about in CB in July of last year. It may surprise some why that method has not been adopted: http://sdcitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/presently_tensepainless_and_public/4537/
Make that: July of ’06–can’t get used to this ’08 thing!