Death Row hypocrisy

[asterroc]

Having suffered a heart attack back in September, Allen had asked prison authorities to let him die if he went into cardiac arrest before his execution, a request prison officials said they would not honor.

"At no point are we not going to value the sanctity of life," said prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon. "We would resuscitate him," then execute him.
(CNN/AP)

It took two shots of lethal injection to kill Clarence Ray Allen.

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[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Or the colonial/Puritanical New England law that attempted suicide was to be punished by hanging.