June 16, 2008
Well, that explains a lot
Meet Ohio Judge James Burge, who attracted the attention of the national media last week.
ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — A judge in Ohio says the state's method of putting prisoners to death is unconstitutional because two of three drugs used in the lethal injection process can cause pain.
Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said Tuesday the state's lethal injection procedure doesn't provide the quick and painless death required by Ohio law.
Burge said Ohio must stop allowing a combination of drugs and focus instead on a single, anesthetic drug.
The ruling is likely be appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court.
He's pictured in his chambers, speaking to the press about the case. Don't take my word for it. The caption, running beneath the photo taken by Associated Press photographer Tony Dejak, says:
Lourain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge speaks in his office in Lorain, Ohio as posters of Che Guevara and Barack Obama hang on his wall.
So, to recap, this judge has chosen to decorate his chambers with huge posters of a dedicated Marxist, a radical who dedicated his life to changing society, avoiding the drudgery of a 9-to-5 job.
And he's also got a poster of Che Guevara, too.
Snark aside, it's awesome that the mental midget decries the death penalty while exalting a man responsible for the execution of thousands of Cubans, many of them by his own hand. Guevara even shot a teenager in the head, pumping a bullet into his brain for stealing food.
As Humberto Fontova wrote:
A Cuban prosecutor of the time who quickly defected in horror and disgust named Jose Vilasuso estimates that Che signed 400 death warrants the first few months of his command in La Cabana. A Basque priest named Iaki de Aspiazu, who was often on hand to perform confessions and last rites, says Che personally ordered 700 executions by firing squad during the period. Cuban journalist Luis Ortega, who knew Che as early as 1954, writes in his book Yo Soy El Che! that Guevara sent 1,897 men to the firing squad.
In his book Che Guevara: A Biography, Daniel James writes that Che himself admitted to ordering "several thousand" executions during the first year of the Castro regime. Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban-American CIA operative who helped track him down in Bolivia and was the last person to question him, says that Che during his final talk, admitted to "a couple thousand" executions. But he shrugged them off as all being of "imperialist spies and CIA agents."
The rest of Fontova's article is worth reading, as a reminder of who Guevara really was.
But it also speaks to the profound stupidity of this so-called judge, who fashions himself a defender of human rights while working beneath the watchful gaze of a mass murdering Communist.
Perfect.
Posted by Mike Lief at June 16, 2008 12:06 AM
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