From the “we’re so good and they’re so evil” files
by digby
Gee, I wonder why our Attorney General has to make public assurances to the world that he will not torture or execute someone he is trying to have extradited back to the United States:
Florida’s Republican Governor Rick Scott is making a big push to expedite the executions of many prisoners who are currently on the state’s death row. He’s signed five death warrants this year (three within a four-week span this spring), a pace rarely seen since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. One of the condemned is John Ferguson, who’s set to be executed on Monday. Ferguson is a notorious killer who has been on death row for more than 30 years. He’s also a paranoid schizophrenic who thinks he’s the “Prince of God.”
Scott’s decision to move forward with Ferguson’s execution has spurred his lawyers, supported by the National Association for Mental Illness and the American Bar Association, to petition the US Supreme Court to intervene. Because he’s mentally ill, they argue, his execution would violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The court has until Monday to stay the execution or allow it to proceed.
Once again, FYI:
Because we’re so good and they’re so evil.
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