In This Death Penalty Case, the Choices Were Too Few: “On Tuesday, the federal government is scheduled to conduct its second

execution in less than two weeks, after there were none for a

generation. Juan Raul Garza will be put to death for several drug-related

murders he committed a decade ago. One could argue that Timothy McVeigh’s

exceptional crime made him a likely candidate for execution in any society that

employs the death penalty. But the Garza case forces us to confront troubling

questions about not only the general fairness of a capital punishment system that

has a disproportionate impact on African-Americans and Hispanics, but also the

fairness of depriving Mr. Garza of a basic protection that every other federal

inmate on death row has received.” New York Times Op-Ed