Pussy

pussy
Pronunciation: \ˈpu̇-sē\
Function: noun
Etymology: puss

1. a cat, esp. a kitten: pet name or child's term


2. Informal a catkin, as of the pussy willow


3. Slang a person, esp. a boy or man, regarded as weak, timid, etc.


4. Slang, Vulgar
   1. the female pudendum; vulva
   2. a woman, or women collectively, regarded only as a sexual partner
   3. sexual intercourse with a woman
   

Victim's family and friends: Justice for whom?
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The state Supreme Court stayed the execution of Cal Coburn Brown on Thursday, just hours before he was to die for the murder of a 22-year-old woman.Brown, 50, was scheduled to die by lethal injection early Friday morning at the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla for the 1991 slaying of Holly Washa.In a 5-4 ruling, the high court, led by Justice Charles Johnson, stayed the execution while Brown's case goes back to Thurston County Superior Court, where another Washington death row inmate, Darold Ray Stenson, was recently granted a May hearing on the constitutionality of Washington state's lethal injection policy.Brown's lawyers contended that it would be wrong to execute Brown before the issue was settled by the court.

The story continues but never clearly explains the case. Brown kidnapped his vitim, and slowly tortured her over two days, keeping her alive so he could continue torturing and abusing her, raping her reatedly.

The reason his execution was stayed by the Supreme Court of Washington?

(wait for it)

To allow him to join a lawsuit maintaining that lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Now I know I am on the other side of the fence when it comes to capital punishment than many of my online friends. I don't believe the state should have the right to take a citizen's life no matter how heinous their crime(s) may be. However, having decided to execute him for torturing someone to death, only to consider his objection that lethal injection is cruel and unusual just leaves me speechless.