ACLU now defends those about to die.

Lethal injection not quick enough




"What is clear from today's botched execution is that the state doesn't know how to execute people without torturing them to death," said Carrie Davis attorney for ACLU of Ohio.

But Newton, who had had insisted on the death penalty as punishment and made no attempt to appeal, chatted and laughed with prison staff throughout the delay. It took so long that the staff paused to allow Newton a bathroom break.

Doesn't sound like torture to me.

So she is defending someone who beat and strangled a man to death, who is willingly taking the lethal injection method of punishment and he was even allowed a bathroom break!

The man was 265lbs! of course it's not going to be easy to find a vein in all that fat, do they the hospital if a nurse has trouble finding a vein? NO! the patient may experience some extra discomfort but this sort of thing is not uncommon.

The biggest question in my mind is how this Carrie Davis can sleep at night, while during the day she spends her time defending a murderers civil rights, when even the man himself did not have a problem with what went down?

In a statement read by a lawyer after his death, Newton, 37, apologized to Brewer's family and his own. But the only thing Newton said in the death chamber was: "Yes, boy, I could sure go for some beef stew and a chicken bone. That's it."

Those are not the words of a tortured man.