Kent Scheidegger Quotations

We're not going to torture people, but I don't believe there is a right to a painless execution, and certainly there is no guarantee. In the real world, nothing is 100 percent.

It doesn't appear to be shaping up as a major issue.

There is practically no chance that lethal injection as such would be thrown out. I would like to see the uncertainty done with.

There's just no reason for that length of a delay in that kind of case where you know you've got the right guy.

They are all jumping on the band wagon. They have an issue with more meat than they had before.

These are all cases where we already have the right guy and the sentence is long overdue.

People can exchange notes with him if they want, but I don't think it really adds anything. The question is whether he deserves the punishment he was sentenced to, and I don't find much enlightening in these discussions.

It may be that an amended protocol is adopted and upheld.

Everybody's scratching their heads trying to figure out what's going on.

It's down from the all-time high and up from the all-time low.

I have no doubt that every inmate nearing execution will glom onto this. But I can't imagine the Supreme Court requiring a state to do something that can't be done.

If the provision holds up, it should fix the problem.

The uncertainty gives them ammunition. How many executions they will actually succeed in delaying is unknown.