Another Creative Challenge to the Death Penalty

First of all, we have the latest creative challenge to the California death penalty from those fun-loving folks at the ACLU (from Special Report):

The ACLU is suing to stop California from executing inmates using lethal injection, not to protect the inmates, but claiming instead that the executions violates the first amendment rights of execution witnesses. The ACLU argues that a drug administered to paralyze inmates during the procedure is designed merely to sanitize the execution and prevent witnesses from seeing convulsions, saying the practice, "makes it impossible for witnesses to determine whether death row inmates in California are being subjected to substantial and unnecessary pain before dying."

But California's attorney general says it's a necessary part of the process — effectively stopping the inmate from breathing

That's right, by paralyzing the condemned, we're depriving the witnesses of their right to see someone suffer. Things must really be slow over at the ACLU if they had time to come up with this.