Monday, January 31, 2011

From the horse's mouth: EU Constitution and the Lisbon Treaty are the same

The past month’s debates in the Commons over the EU Bill have once again revived the thorny issue of the Lisbon Treaty and its abandoned twin the EU Constitution. Many members of Parliament still talk bitterly of the referendum that never came. Let's re-cap: the previous Labour government denied the British people a say on the Lisbon Treaty despite promising one in its election manifesto, it's sole argument being that the Treaty differed from the EU Constitution (despite almost all other EU leaders arguing that it was the same and the similarities becoming patently obvious when reading both side by side).

Of course, some MPs still defend the Lisbon Treaty with fervour, like Former Europe Minister and Labour MP Chris Bryant for example - for good reason often described as 'permanently outraged'. Last week in the Commons he went on his usual rant against anyone and anything that happens to favour EU and democracy reforms. This time, however, he completely slipped up and admitted what we all already know:
Referendums in different countries operate in different ways. I think that I have heard the Minister say on a couple of occasions both here and elsewhere that there was never a referendum that supported the Lisbon treaty. That is completely untrue, as the Spaniards were the first to hold a referendum and it had an 83% or 84% yes vote, so he is wrong about that.
Gotcha!

As we know, in Spain there was only a referendum on the EU Constitution in 2005, and never on the Lisbon Treaty. Bryant is in effect admitting that the two are the same thing - a bit of a political faux pas for someone who was Europe Minister in the very same government that denied the electorate a referendum (though, to be fair to Bryant, he joined the government when the action on Lisbon was largely over - Labour saw through a record 12 Europe Ministers in 13 years).

Bryant’s candid admission is certainly not shared with his colleagues. Amazingly, the Labour front bench still insists that the two are different. Just one day earlier in the Commons, Shadow Europe Minister Wayne David argued:
It is pretty obvious to anybody who has given the matter any detailed study that there is a fundamental difference between a proposed constitution on the European Union and the treaty of Lisbon.
Please Mr. David and colleagues, give up on this one. You broke a manifesto promise, deal with it.

This debate is over.

Iran: New executions in Karaj and Birjand today; One executed in Tehran yesterday

Iran Human Rights, January 31: According to the reports from Iran several people have been executed in different Iranian cities today and yesterday.

In a press conference that was held today, Iran’s prosecutor general, and spokesman of the Iranian judiciary, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i said that several people have been hanged in the cities of Birjand (east of Iran) and Karaj (west of Tehran) today and one person was hanged in Tehran yesterday reported several Iranian news agencies. According to these reports all of those executed today and yesterday were convicted of drug trafficking.

The reports didn’t mention the exact number nor the identities of those who were executed.

Source: Iran Human Rights, January 31, 2011 - [فارسى]
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Pakistan's nuclear arsenal tops 100



Pakistan has doubled its nuclear weapons stockpile over the past several years, increasing its arsenal to more than 100 deployed weapons, The Washington Post reported late Sunday.



Citing US non-government analysts, the newspaper said that only four years ago, the Pakistani nuclear arsenal was estimated at 30 to 60 weapons.







"They have been expanding pretty rapidly," the report quoted David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, as saying.







Based on recently accelerated production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium, Islamabad may now have an arsenal of up to 110 weapons, Albright said.







As a result, Pakistan has now edged ahead of India, its nuclear-armed rival, The Post noted. India is estimated to have 60 to 100 weapons.














Man hanged in Iran for "apostasy"

Iran Human Rights, January 31: One man was hanged in the southwestern Iranian town of Ahvaz convicted of apostasy, reported the Iranian news website Mashregh news today.

According to the report the man who was identified as "Ali Ghorabat" also known as "Saed", was convicted of apostasy for "claiming to have contact with the God and the 12th Shiite Imam". he was executed on Wednesday January 26. in the Karoun prison of Ahvaz, said the report. The title of the report in Mashreghnews was "The bald God was hanged".

Source: Iran Human Rights, January 31, 2011
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War News for Monday, January 31, 2011

NATO is reporting the deaths of two ISAF soldiers from an IED attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Friday, January 29th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an IED attack in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, January 31th.


Guard soldier who served in Afghanistan dies - Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Jason T. Pool

Afghan police look for 15 female Chechen militants


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed an electricity ministry employee, and seven people have been wounded in a string of attacks in Baghdad. Police and hospital officials say the gunmen intercepted the electricity ministry engineer's car in western Baghdad.

#2-5: Officials say four bombs also wounded seven other people in the capital on Monday, including two bodyguards protecting an education ministry adviser. The others wounded were a senior police officer, a Justice Ministry employee and three civilians.

#3: "An explosive charge blew off under a car belonging to a Justice Ministry official in southeast Baghdad's Za'afaraniya district, seriously wounding him and causing damage to his car," the security source told Aswat al-Iraq.

#4: "An explosive charge blew of on Monday, wounding a Traffic Police officer, with a maj.general rank, accompanied by a woman, who was also injured, while coming out of their house in southern Baghdad's Abu-Tayara district on Monday," the security source said, adding that the blast had caused damage to his house and car.

#5: In another incident, the security source said that another "explosive charge blew off close to the Collage of Education in central Baghdad's Waziriya district, wounding three civilians.

#6: He said that "another explosive charge, stuck in a civilian car on Mohammed al-Qassim's Highway in Baghdad, blew off wounding its driver and causing damage to his car."

#7: Four Iraqi civilians have been injured in an explosive charge blast in central Baghdad on Monday, a security source said. "An explosive charge blew off on Monday morning close to central Baghdad's People's Stadium, wounding four civilians," the security source added, giving no further details.

#8: Gunmen using silenced weapons opened fire on a car in Baghdad's southwestern Amil district on Sunday, killing one employee of a private security company and wounding another, an Interior Ministry source said.

#9: A sticky bomb attached to a car seriously wounded a cleric when it went off in western Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Four people died in a suicide attack in Peshawar when a bomber walked in front of a marked police van and blew himself up, according to Pakistani government official Muhammad Siraj. Of them, one was a senior police official and three were police officers. Sixteen people were also injured in the attack, Siraj said. The casualties included police and civilians.

#2: A fourth police personnel was killed hours later when a bomb hit another police vehicle while on patrol in Peshawar, according to Shafi Ullah Kahn, a senior Pakistani police official. The second attack wounded three other officers.

#3-4: In the country's southwest, militants on motorcyles attacked and burned three oil tankers taking fuel to U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Sunday night, a Pakistani police official said. The attack took place 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Quetta in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, according to Noor Ul Haq. Sunday night's attack came hours after another group of militants on motorcycles torched two NATO supply trucks traveling through Baluchistan province that were also on the way to Afghanistan.

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Three big 'excepts'

Except for fishing, farming, and the euro, Norway is practically speaking already part of the EU’s inner market. The only thing it lacks is the right of co-determination.
- Norwegian Conservative MP Nikolai Astrup takes issue with polling-results showing that a record 65.9% of his fellow countrymen are giving thumbs down to Norway joining the EU (only 22.5% in favour).

There are arguments for and against Norway joining the EU. But fishing, farming and the euro are three pretty big 'excepts'...


Policy before institution, please

In regards to Egypt, institutional Europe was lacking a clear line until [French President] Nicolas Sarkozy, [German Chancellor] Angela Merkel and David Cameron decided to put pressure on [Egyptian leader] Hosni Mubarak to implement the ‘political, economic and social reforms’ he had pledged. Until then, Catherine Ashton, the voice of [the EU’s] diplomacy, and Herman Van Rompuy, President of the [European] Council, had been grinding topical phrases about the rejection of violence and the necessity of dialogue.
- An article in today's Le Figaro criticises the EU’s response to the recent crises in the Arab world and summarises the problems inherent in the EU's confused foreign policy set-up, i.e. institutions without real policies.

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Rare Sumatran Tiger Gives Birth To Three Cubs In Indonesia


A rare Sumatran tiger has given birth to three cubs at an Indonesian zoo in a welcome boost for the endangered species, an official said.

The big cat gave birth to four cubs at Taman Rimba zoo in Jambi province but one died at once, according to provincial tourism and cultural agency head Didi Wuryanto.

"I'm overjoyed. This is a extraordinary achievement," Wuryanto told AFP.

He said the parents of the cubs, male and female tigers called Peter and Uni, had been shifted to Jambi on Sumatra island from Ragunan zoo in Jakarta.

"It's hard to take care of tigers. Thanks to the effort of the people in the zoo, there is hope now that we can assist in saving the tiger population," he said.

Human-animal conflicts are a increasing problem as people encroach on wildlife habitats in Indonesia, an archipelago with some of the world's largest remaining tropical forests.

There are hardly 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild in Indonesia, conservation group WWF said.

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Deserter's execution remains vivid for Whitehall man

The bravest act Nick Gozik witnessed during World War II wasn't on the battlefield.

On his 25th birthday, Gozik stood witness as Pvt. Eddie Slovik became the only U.S. service member executed for desertion since the Civil War.

Slovik did not try to run from his fate in a French courtyard. He knew he would die within moments, yet he did not cry or whimper or beg for his life.

He was branded a deserter, but he was no coward, Gozik said.

"I've seen a lot of people in the service who didn't want to die, but he knew he was going to die," said Gozik, 90, of Whitehall. "He knew what to expect, and he was going to abide by it."

In November, about 65 years later, Gozik paid his respects to a man he never met but knew at his final hour.

"He paid the price of several thousand people deserting during the war," Gozik said. "Believe me when I tell you, to me, he was the bravest soldier I ever met."

Gozik joined the Army National Guard shortly after his 19th birthday. When the United States entered World War II after Pearl Harbor was attacked, Gozik and his fellow Guardsmen ended up on active duty.

He served with the Army's 28th Infantry Division in an artillery unit that made its way through Europe. In eastern France, after he survived the Battle of the Bulge, Gozik found himself a witness to history.

The war was still raging, but Gozik and his unit were taking a breather. He and a few others were told to report to battalion headquarters on the morning of Jan. 31, 1945. They were not told why.

They traveled through the wet snow that blanketed the hills the night before and into Sainte-Marie-Aux-Mines in the Vosges Mountains.

"When we drove down into this little town, we weren't sure what we were expecting," Gozik said.

They were taken to what Gozik described as a castle-like villa at the end of town with iron gates, a bridge and a stone wall surrounding it. They entered a courtyard.

"They had put up a large pole in the center of this area close to the stone wall," he said.

The murmurs began. Somebody was being executed today.

Gozik and the others were supposed to stand at attention. Nobody did.

Instead, they watched as Slovik, wearing his uniform stripped of its insignia, emerged from a small shed.

He was flanked by 2 soldiers, a blanket draped over his shoulders. His head was bare.

Slovik was a "little fellow," Gozik said. "He was going to be 25 years old in February. And that day was my birthday” Jan. 31. I was 25 years old."

Slovik was strapped to the post -- his feet, legs, waist and under his arms -- so that when he died, he wouldn't slump to the ground.

A Catholic priest -- a chaplain who had celebrated Mass around a Jeep with Gozik and his comrades -- went to Slovik's side.

Gozik thought he made out the words of "Hail Mary."

He heard the end of their exchange: "'Eddie,'" the priest said, "'when you get up there, say a prayer for me.' Eddie said he would."

A satiny black hood, made by a local woman, was pulled over Slovik's head.

12 more soldiers marched in -- the firing squad. They were the sharpshooters, picked from various units in the 28th.

Each loaded his rifle with 1 round. 11 had live ammunition; 1 had a blank.

The general read the charges against Slovik. The declaration lasted 5 minutes and then -- "Ready, aim, fire!"

"When they fired, you expected the bang to go off, but it shook us -- 12 rounds," Gozik said. "It just shattered the stillness of the day."

Slovik slumped a bit. A physician checked his vital signs. He was still alive.

"I heard the doctor say, 'What's the matter with you guys? Can't you shoot straight?' " Gozik said.

As they reloaded, Slovik took his last breath.

The witnesses were ordered to march out before the body was removed.

Gozik went back to his unit and told the guys what he had seen. He wrote home about it.

But he never heard mention of it from his superiors. There was no article in "Stars and Stripes."

While the death stuck with him, and he didn't feel it was right, Gozik never knew the details of Slovik's crimes until years later when he came across William Bradford Huie's book, "The Execution of Private Slovik."

Gozik learned about the man whom he knew only in death. He learned Slovik was a petty thief from Detroit deemed unsuitable for the military until more soldiers were needed.

"They were scraping the bottom of the barrel," Gozik said. "They needed cannon fodder.

"He didn't belong there. He didn't belong there. It was sad."

In Europe, Slovik and another soldier were separated from their unit. For weeks, they helped a Canadian unit while they tried to find their way back. When they did, Slovik told a commander he would prefer a job in the rear of the unit. He would serve, but he did not want to fire a rifle.

When Slovik was told he follows orders or else, he chose desertion. Time and again, when given a choice, Slovik said he would desert.

"They could have probably found another job for him," Gozik said. "But they wanted to make him pay the price."

Upwards of 40,000 U.S. service members evaded combat during World War II. Most were tried by lesser courts-martial, but 2,864 cases were heard by general courts-martial and received sentences from 20 years to death. While 49 death sentences were approved, only Slovik's was carried out.

"They said he was a nobody, but he was a somebody," Gozik said, his eyes filling with tears. "They felt nobody would worry or care about him."

Gozik said the execution was a blatant injustice.

"If he died as a deterrent to eliminate the possibility of further deserters, it really didn't make a difference," Gozik said, "It was just awful as far as I'm concerned."

Slovik was buried in a section of a French cemetery reserved for 96 American soldiers executed in the European Theater. All but Slovik had been hanged for violent crimes -- the murder or rape of civilians.

For years, a Michigan politician, himself a World War II vet, petitioned for Slovik's body to be returned to the States and buried next to his wife, who died in 1979. In 1987, those pleas were heard. But attempts over the years to get Slovik a presidential pardon have not been successful.

For years, Gozik wanted to pay his respects to Slovik. Last November, he decided it was time to go to Detroit.

He wanted to meet with Slovik's sister.

"I just wanted to tell her what a brave man her brother was, and whatever happened to him, he did not deserve it," Gozik said. "I wanted to put her mind at ease that there was no justification."

Slovik's sister declined to meet. The memories were still too painful.

On the day after Veterans Day, on the way to a granddaughter's wedding, Gozik and many of his family members went to Slovik's grave.

With the help of a daughter, he placed a small American flag at the grave.

"It was the end of my journey for Eddie," he said. "I did what I wanted to do, but I'm sorry it took that many years."

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, January 31, 2011
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Shortage of execution drug leaves Mississippi looking for replacement

Just weeks before Mississippi had back-to-back executions for the 1st time in nearly 50 years, officials were scrambling to find enough sodium thiopental to carry out the sentences.

The executions were carried out as scheduled, but the difficulty in finding sodium thiopental shows Mississippi is not immune from a nationwide shortage of the drug.

State Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps said last week the state is looking for a replacement for sodium thiopental, 1 of 3 drugs used in Mississippi's executions.

"We don't have a choice. We're wearing out our options," Epps said.

Hospira Inc., the only U.S. supplier of sodium thiopental, stopped producing it in 2009.

The company recently announced that it won't resume production.

Epps and the Mississippi attorney general's office said last week that state officials are looking for a different drug for executions, but using a new drug creates the potential for a wave of legal challenges to the state's method of execution.

Source: Sun Herald, January 31, 2011
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Indonesia: Judges' comments raise hopes for Bali Nine duo

The Indonesian court that heard the final legal appeals of death row inmates Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran (left) has raised the Bali 9 members' chances of being spared death by firing squad.

A written declaration that the right to life ''must not be ignored, reduced [or] taken away by anyone'' made by a panel of 3 judges was sent from Denpasar District Court to the country's Supreme Court last month.

Based on that opinion, and the evidence of the hearings summarised by the judges, the Supreme Court will make the final verdict on the Bali nine members' attempt to have the death penalty reduced to 20-year prison terms. The decision is expected within a few months.

The six-point concluding opinion, obtained by The Age, backs most of the arguments put to the court by the pair's legal counsel and notes that many other countries no longer have the death penalty.

''Human rights constitute the most basic of rights inherent to man and is universal and eternal. Therefore, it must be protected, defended and must not be ignored, reduced [or] taken away by anyone,'' the judges said.

They pointed to the 1945 constitution, which they said explicitly stated that everybody had the right to life.

While capital punishment still exists in Indonesia, including for narcotics offences, the judges said the death penalty should only be imposed for ''the most serious crimes'' under the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights signed by the Indonesian government.

Chan and Sukumaran, both from Sydney, were detained along with 7 other Australians in Bali in 2005, and later found guilty of organising the smuggling of 8.1 kilograms of heroin to Australia.

Unlike other members of the Bali nine syndicate, they have faced the death penalty from the outset and have had that sentence upheld in all previous appeals, hurt by their refusal to admit their guilt or co-operate with authorities on the advice of their previous legal team.

However, the two men confessed their crimes before the judges in their most recent trial, expressing their contrition in Indonesian courts and testifying that they were working hard to reform their lives.

Their rehabilitation was endorsed by testimony from the governor of Bali's Kerobokan prison, Siswanto, who praised them for organising computer, graphic design and other classes for Indonesian inmates at the penitentiary. Siswanto also expressed his desire that their lives be spared.

The judges picked up on this point, saying the ''condition of the perpetrator'' must be considered.

However, the Denpasar judges dismissed an argument from the duo's lawyer that they only ''attempted'' the crime of drug exportation because the drugs were intercepted at Bali airport before the drug mules boarded their plane back to Australia.

Just what weight the Supreme Court gives to the Denpasar judges' opinion remains to be seen. The court is also considering an appeal from Scott Rush, the other member of the Bali 9 on death row.

If the appeals fail, the 3 Australians can appeal directly to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for clemency.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has lobbied Dr Yudhoyono on behalf of Chan, Sukumaran and Rush.

Source: The Age, January 31, 2011


Right-to-life ruling may save Bali pair from firing squad


The chances of the Bali nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran being spared death by firing squad have improved significantly after the Indonesian court that heard their final legal appeals found the right to life ''must not be ignored, reduced or taken away''.

The striking declaration in support of the sanctity of life was made by a panel of three judges in a written opinion sent from Denpasar District Court last month to the Supreme Court.

Based on the opinion and evidence summarised by the judges, the Supreme Court will make the final verdict on the men's bid to have the death penalty reduced to a 20-year jail term.

The decision is expected in months.

The 6-point concluding opinion, obtained by the Herald, backs most of the arguments put by the pair's lawyer and notes that many other countries no longer have the death penalty. ''Human rights constitute the most basic of rights inherent to man and is universal and eternal. Therefore, it must be protected, defended and must not be ignored, reduced, taken away by anyone.''

While capital punishment still exists in Indonesia, the judges said such a penalty should be imposed only for ''the most serious crimes'' under the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights signed by Indonesia.

Chan and Sukumaran, both from Sydney, were detained with 7 other Australians in Bali in 2005 and later found guilty of organising to smuggle 8.1 kilograms of heroin to Australia.

Unlike other syndicate members, the pair have faced the death penalty from the outset and have had that sentence upheld in all previous appeals, hurt by their refusal to admit guilt.

However, the 2 confessed their crimes before the judges in the most recent hearing. Their rehabilitation was endorsed by the governor of Bali's Kerobokan prison, Siswanto, who said he wanted their lives spared.

The judges dismissed an argument from their lawyer that they only ''attempted'' the crime of drug exportation because the drugs were intercepted at Bali airport before the drug couriers boarded their plane to Australia.

If the appeal fails, the Australians can appeal to Indonesia's President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, for clemency.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald, January 31, 2011
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Iran condemns 2 to death over porn sites

Iranian courts on Sunday sentenced 2 people to death for running porn sites, prosecutor general Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said, quoted on the Islamic republic's official IRNA news agency.

"2 administrators of porn sites have been sentenced to death in 2 different (court) branches and (the verdicts) have been sent to the supreme court for confirmation," Dolatabadi said, without naming the 2 convicts.

Last December, Canada expressed concern over the reported death sentence handed down to an Iranian-born Canadian resident for allegedly designing an adult website.

Saeed Malekpour, 35, was convicted of "designing and moderating adult content websites," "agitation against the regime" in Tehran, and "insulting the sanctity of Islam," according to an online campaign calling for his release.

Malekpour was detained in Iran after returning in 2008 to visit his ailing father. He was sentenced to death in December.

The Netherlands froze contacts with Tehran after Saturday's hanging of an Iranian-Dutch woman for drug smuggling, having initially been arrested for taking part in anti-government protests.

Iran, China, Saudi Arabia and United States have the highest numbers of executions each year. Adultery, murder, drug trafficking, homosexuality and other major crimes are all punishable by death in the Islamic republic.

Source: Agence France-Presse, January 31, 2011
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Egypt in Crisis


Wolf Blitzer, Isha Sesay and Anderson Cooper, from Cairo, will anchor a 2 hour special on CNN Sunday evening from 9-11 PM ET.
A partial list of CNN boots on the ground in Egypt includes Cooper, Ivan Watson, Ben Wedeman, Nic Robertson, Arwa Damon and Frederik Pleitgen plus scores of producers, cameramen and stringers.


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US: Sedative maker deplores death penalty use

The sole U.S. manufacturer of a sedative Ohio plans to use to execute death row inmates -- and that Oklahoma already uses to do so -- said Wednesday it opposes the practice and has asked both states to stop using the drug.

Pentobarbital maker Lundbeck Inc. says it never intended for the drug to be used to put inmates to death.

"This goes against everything we're in business to do," Sally Benjamin Young, spokeswoman for the Denmark-based company's U.S. headquarters in Deerfield, Ill., told The Associated Press.

"We like to develop and make available therapies that improve people's lives," she said. "That's the focus of our business."

State prison officials in Ohio and Oklahoma said they hadn't seen copies of the letter Wednesday and could not comment.

Oklahoma has used the drug in combination with 2 others in 3 executions, while Ohio announced Tuesday it is switching to the sedative as the sole drug used to put inmates to death.

Ohio has not yet purchased its 1st supplies and Oklahoma has said it obtains its supply from a private pharmacy.

Source: Associated Press, January 28, 2011


Ohio at Death Penalty Crossroads

As the pace of executions has accelerated in Ohio (it was 2nd only to Texas is executions last year), the Buckeye State has been at the center of death penalty debates in the U.S. Since the miserably failed execution of Romell Broom (in which he was subjected to 2 hours of unsuccessful attempts to find a vein suitable for injecting the lethal drugs) Ohio has twice switched execution protocols -- 1st, moving to a 1 drug method (a massive dose of the anesthetic sodium thiopental), and now, as that drug's manufacturer has taken it off the market, a 1 drug dose of a different anesthetic, pentobarbital, which is commonly used to put down animals.

The 1st execution in Ohio to incorporate this new drug is scheduled for March 10.

Meanwhile, those who know Ohio's death penalty the best have begun to assert that Ohio should just abolish the death penalty. Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul E. Pfeifer, who as a state Senator was largely responsible for enacting Ohio's death penalty law, has called for an end to capital punishment in his state. And Terry Collins, a former warden who personally witnessed 33 executions, has also urged Ohioans to give up the death penalty.

On the question of capital punishment, Ohio is moving simultaneously in two different directions. Will Ohio ignore the voices of those most experienced with the death penalty and continue to execute prisoners at a record pace? Or will the people of Ohio heed those voices and move to shut down Ohio's incredibly dysfunctional death penalty once and for all?

Source: Amnesty International USA, January 28, 2011


Ohio Changes Lethal Injection Drug

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) announced today it will substitute Pentobarbital for Sodium Thiopental for the purposes of carrying out lethal injections in Ohio. The protocol change results from a national shortage of Sodium Thiopental and the manufacturer's announced discontinuation of production.

The new drug, Pentobarbital, is widely available and manufactured in the United States. The change in protocol was communicated to U.S. District Judge Frost before whom legal action is pending concerning Ohio's lethal injection procedure. Pending further legal developments, the new procedure will be used for the execution of Johnnie Baston in March.

The state of Oklahoma has used Pentobarbital in 3 executions. At a much lower dosage, Pentobarbital is used to induce coma in heart surgery patients.

This protocol will not impact the execution of Frank Spisak scheduled for February 17, 2011. However, it will be applied to all future executions. DRC will continue to exercise this responsibility in a professional, humane and dignified manner.

Source: FiercePharma.com, January 28, 2011
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If Kentucky is to continue executing death row inmates, it must find a new source of a drug used in lethal injections or revise the rules to substitute another drug.

The state has lost its supplier of sodium thiopental, an anesthetic used in executions.

Changing the mix of drugs used in an execution would require revising state regulations, a process that would take time and open the door for challenges by defense attorneys and anti-death penalty advocates.

The changes and challenges could take much of the year to resolve, said the Rev. Pat Delahanty, chairman of the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

"I don't think there'll be executions in 2011" in Kentucky, Delahanty said.

Hospira, a Lake Forest, Ill., company, announced last week it would not resume production of sodium thiopental.

Kentucky and other states use the chemical as the 1st one injected during an execution, to render the condemned person unconscious, followed by 2 other drugs to stop the inmate's breathing and heart.

Hospira was the only U.S. provider of sodium thiopental, which nearly all the states with the death penalty use in executions, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

The announcement caught officials in Kentucky and elsewhere by surprise.

"Hospira repeatedly told us that the drug would be available in the 1st quarter of this year," said Lisa Lamb, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. "Since their announcement, we are gathering information on the availability of the drug and are exploring our options."

The state searched unsuccessfully last year for another source of sodium thiopental.

Dieter said he thinks most states will switch to another anesthetic for the executions.

Kentucky's execution regulation, however, specifies the use of sodium thiopental in combination with two other drugs.

That means if the state substitutes another anesthetic or switches to using a single drug, as some states are considering, it would have to put a new regulation into effect.

Dieter said he expects executions to slow down across the nation as states make changes and, inevitably, face lawsuits by death-penalty opponents.

"It's going to take some months, maybe a year" to resolve the issues, he said. "Everywhere, there's going to be challenges."

The inability to get sodium thiopental won't immediately delay any executions in Kentucky. The state is under a court order not to carry out executions.

That order came in a challenge to the state's attempt to execute Gregory Wilson last September.

Wilson was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing Debbie Pooley, 36, in Northern Kentucky in 1987.

After Gov. Steve Beshear set Wilson's execution for Sept. 16, Wilson's attorneys joined a challenge to the state's execution protocol by other death row inmates.

Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ruled that the regulation spelling out how the state will execute someone conflicted with state law.

The judge also said the protocol doesn't include adequate safeguards to prevent executing a person who is mentally retarded, which is against the law.

Wilson's attorneys have argued the only known test of Wilson's mental capacity showed he was retarded.

Shepherd issued an order barring the state from executing anyone.

The court fight over that order continues.

It will be resolved eventually, however, and state officials on both sides of the death-penalty issue are trying to figure out how to respond to difficulties in getting sodium thiopental.

"The question will be, what process do we have going forward?" said Tim Arnold, a supervisor at the state Department for Public Advocacy.

Some states have explored getting sodium thiopental from other countries.

That would raise a concern about the quality of the drug from foreign sources, Arnold said.

Kentucky has not looked to foreign sources for the drug in the past, said Jennifer Brislin, spokeswoman for the state Justice and Public Safety Cabinet.

Shelley Johnson, spokeswoman for state Attorney General Jack Conway, said 4 Death row inmates are at the stage in their appeals that Conway could ask Beshear to set execution dates for them.

They include Wilson; Ralph Baze, who was convicted of killing Powell County Sheriff Steve Bennett and Deputy Arthur Briscoe in 1992 as they tried to arrest him; and Robert Foley, convicted of murdering 6 people in Laurel County in 2 separate cases.

Johnson declined to identify the 4th man.

Death-penalty opponents hope the shortage of sodium thiopental for executions will create momentum for their call to end executions.

"Lacking the drugs to carry out the death penalty is added evidence that the system is broken," said Delahanty. "Finding another drug, which would require going through the whole regulatory process again, and wasting taxpayer dollars on more litigation, would be the wrong way to go and continue to undermine the credibility of our justice system."

Delahanty said the state law allowing life without parole is enough to protect the public and punish heinous murderers.

Others, however, noted that many people support the death penalty.

States will continue to look for sources of drugs to carry out executions, said Dieter.

"I don't think this is the end of the death penalty," he said.

Source: kentucky.com, January 28, 2011
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News of the Day for Sunday, January 30, 2011

Reported Security Incidents

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Gunmen using silenced weapons kill an Interior Ministry officer in Mansour. In a similar attack, a police officer is killed in Uteifiya on Saturday night.

Baghdad Operations Command says it has discovered 63 rockets in the past 24 hours.

Other News of the Day

Claiming inspiration from the uprising in Egypt, Kurdistan's opposition Gorran Party calls for the Kurdistan government to resign. The two parties which have long divided power in Kurdistan -- Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party -- rebuffed the statement.

Iraq offers to evacuate any of its citizens who care to leave Egypt. AP notes, "Sunday's offer is a role reversal since many of the Iraqis living in Egypt fled their homeland because of rampant violence, with near-daily attacks still continuing."

AP's Bushra Juhi and Kim Gamel discuss Iraqis' view of the uprising in Egypt. They look at scenes of looting with foreboding but also admire people for rising up against corruption, unemployment, and undemocratic rule. Hmm.

U.S. special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction Stewart Bowen expresses reservations about the readiness of Iraqi security forces as the U.S. prepares for final departure. "Though advances continue to be made, corruption, lack of capacity to handle logistics and an absence of realistic planning threaten to undermine the security infrastructure and equipment introduced into Iraq by U.S.-led forces. . ."

Afghanistan Update

Suicide bomber on a motorcycle kills the deputy governor of Kandahar province, Abdul Latif Ashna and injures three of his bodyguards.

Gunmen in southwest Pakistan attack three trucks recently returned from delivering supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Department of Hmmm, okay: Afghanistan will sign an agreement with the UN to end recruitment of children as police, and end the practice of child sex slavery by military commanders. This apparently represents the first official acknowledgment that keeping boys as sex slaves is a problem in Afghanistan. It turns out to be a long-standing tradition. (We have noted it here before, but it gets almost no attention from the U.S. corporate media. Obviously it is not consistent with the mythology of our noble Afghan allies.)

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