God have mercy on us all.

I am working on a possible series of posts about capital punishment. While reviewing posts I had already made on the subject, I found this post on Bell v. Thompson. The decision came down when I was on vacation, and I missed it.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state. Which means a man who was schizophrenic at the time he committed the first crime, who had incompetent counsel, who an appeals court said should have a new trial, will be executed because the Circuit Court's decision that he should be given a new trial came too late and was technically insufficient.

This is not justice. This is barbarism.