Paying for Capital Punishment

The New York Times has an interesting story which supports points 2 & 7 in my recent apology against the death penalty. The State of Georgia is beginning to discover that a system of capital punishment that provides for truly competent legal council cannot be run on the cheap. Needless to say they are not happy. While I expect the Supreme Court to affirm lethal injection as a permissible means of execution I also expect the court to continue its slow trend in raising the often abysmal standards for legal council in capital cases.