Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government has exercised virtually unchecked power over those it has detained.

Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.