Making Sacrifices

In spite of its president's Nobel peace prize (remember that, hopers 'n' dreamers?), the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave and World Cop by the grace of God may soon fall behind in yet another of its major industries, leaving the premier league to less harried moralists in China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Texas, which is to judicial murder what Wall Street is to corporate theft, is running low on one of the three drugs which protocol decrees are necessary to administer a lethal injection. The manufacturers, Lundbeck, have restricted the drug's distribution to the kind of death-panel Democrats who think it should be used to keep people alive; so Texas only has enough left for 6.75 executions, while Georgia has only enough for four. It is as yet unclear whether the authorities intend to allow themselves to be forced unto the un-American and un-Christian expedient of a moratorium, or whether they plan to become drug smugglers instead. Perhaps the Obama administration would care to step in and relax the rules: a temporary dispensation in favour of executing minors would at least ensure that the 0.75 would not be wasted, and it is after all an election year.

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