Common Sense Be Damned!

By Semperpapa

Last Tuesday, the new Supreme Court Justice, Elena Kagan, cast her first decision. She was on the losing side of a 5-4 court decision regarding the stay of execution of a man in Arizona.
The execution of Jeffrey Landrigan had been halted by a federal judge in Phoenix and the stay backed by the always entertaining 9Th Circuit Court of Appeal in San Francisco.
The reason for the block was that the lawyers for Mr. Landrigan had raised some questions about one of the drugs used for the execution and its safety.

The deliberation of the Supreme Court was that there were no indications of any safety issues for the drug and that the stay of execution was therefore lifted. Mr. Landrigan was executed shortly afterward.

So this story got me thinking.
Some loser's lawyer tries to grab some straws to get his client to avoid being executed according to the law and he conveniently finds an activist judge that will go along and stop the carrying out of justice.
The 9Th Circuit Court, not wanting to miss the opportunity of trampling on the will of the American people in support of every low lifer out there, goes along with the activist judge and the whole thing goes to the SCOTUS.

What would be interesting to find out is the cost to the taxpayers for this shenanigan. Why are we spending taxpayers' money to address the "safety" of a drug aimed at killing someone? What are we afraid of? That the corpse will develop an infection?

Ultimately, justice prevailed and the low life paid for his crime in the manner dictated by the law of the land. And Kagan gave us the first of many decisions that will surely characterize her tenure on the highest court.

Just my thoughts!