Newsmax recently had me as a guest on Ed Berliner’s television show, Midpoint. Following the interview was a blog post from Newsmax reporting on the state of the death penalty and the interview. The author, Sean Piccoli said,
Subjecting the death penalty to “a conservative litmus test,” Marc Hyden, National Coordinator for Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, told “MidPoint” host Ed Berliner that the policy fails on at least three counts.
“You risk killing innocent life, so it’s not pro-life,” said Hyden. “It costs more than life without parole, so it’s not fiscally responsible. And I don’t think giving our government the power to kill U.S. citizens — I don’t think that’s limited government.”
Piccoli went on to discuss lethal injection protocols and said,
Other companies still make chemicals that are presented as a more humane form of capital punishment than the gas chamber or the electric chair., but death-penalty states want those companies’ identities kept secret to shield them from reprisals.
Hyden said there is “no reason” for a “lethal injection protocol shrouded in secrecy.”
“I think this is a transparency in government issue,” he said.