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The state is using illegal drugs, administered without the care or advice of a doctor, to kill its citizens and you think it should remain secret for the sake o

The state is using illegal drugs, administered without the care or advice of a doctor, to kill its citizens and you think it should remain secret for the sake of the privacy of the condemned? I can’t even.

bluGill 7y ago
The article is confusing, from what I can gather she is interested in praying for those about to be executed and wants their name. There is lots of other text about drugs and such in their, but it doesn't seem to be the subject of her request. Instead I read it as a side discussion. Worth investigating - and thus worth the records, but the forms would be filled out differently if so.
- mikeash 7y ago
  Where do you get that? The request is clearly described as being for the method of execution. Requesting their names wouldn’t make any sense anyway. That’s already publicly available.
- inflatableDodo 7y ago
  >When Isner asked for Alabama’s death row execution protocols, she had to give a reason on the Department of Corrections’ public information request form. >Isner has strong opinions about the death penalty (like a lot of people do). She’s an ordained minister, although she doesn’t lead a church (her husband does, though). Later she would run for Congress against Rep. Martha Roby (Isner lost). >When she filled out the form she said what a lot of politicians and preachers say when confronted with a prickly question: She wanted to pray on it. >Next to “Proposed Use of Records” she wrote: “As a member of the clergy, I feel a spiritual obligation to pray over executions. To do this most effectively, I need to have a detailed understanding of how executions are carried out.” Can you indicate which bit of this is confusing to you? And did you just conjour up the bit about her wanting their names, entirely from whole cloth? As it is nowhere is the text.

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The state is using illegal drugs, administered without the care or advice of a doctor, to kill its citizens and you think it should remain secret for the sake o

by mikeash 7y ago

bluGill 7y ago
The article is confusing, from what I can gather she is interested in praying for those about to be executed and wants their name. There is lots of other text about drugs and such in their, but it doesn't seem to be the subject of her request. Instead I read it as a side discussion. Worth investigating - and thus worth the records, but the forms would be filled out differently if so.
- mikeash 7y ago
  Where do you get that? The request is clearly described as being for the method of execution. Requesting their names wouldn’t make any sense anyway. That’s already publicly available.
- inflatableDodo 7y ago
  >When Isner asked for Alabama’s death row execution protocols, she had to give a reason on the Department of Corrections’ public information request form. >Isner has strong opinions about the death penalty (like a lot of people do). She’s an ordained minister, although she doesn’t lead a church (her husband does, though). Later she would run for Congress against Rep. Martha Roby (Isner lost). >When she filled out the form she said what a lot of politicians and preachers say when confronted with a prickly question: She wanted to pray on it. >Next to “Proposed Use of Records” she wrote: “As a member of the clergy, I feel a spiritual obligation to pray over executions. To do this most effectively, I need to have a detailed understanding of how executions are carried out.” Can you indicate which bit of this is confusing to you? And did you just conjour up the bit about her wanting their names, entirely from whole cloth? As it is nowhere is the text.