This statement from the prison where Clarence Ray Allen was executed:
Having suffered a heart attack in September, Allen had asked prison authorities to let him die if he went into cardiac arrest before his execution, a request prison officials said they would not honor.
"At no point are we not going to value the sanctity of life," said prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon. "We would resuscitate him," then execute him.
I'll just let that one hang there. Or as B. B. King would say, "simmer a bit."
Its the same mentality that puts prisoner just about to be executed on suicide watch.
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