capital punishment

Note to Readers: Depending upon your perspective, this article may come across as flippant, offensive, possibly reckless, and almost certainly disturbing. After all, aren't there enough suicides plaguing us as a society?

Regardless of your position on the death penalty, I believe that most of us would be horrified by the cruelty and incompetence in a recent case at an Alabama prison, regardless of any sympathy (or the lack thereof) one might have for a t

I've written before about what happens when prisons use bad science to carry out capital punishment (1). It's not pretty.