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Bill Wiseman Dies in Plane CrashA note of sad news, Rev. Bill Wiseman died in a small planecrash . A death penalty opponent, Wiseman authored the nation's firstlethal injection legislation when he was a member of the Oklahomalegislature in 1977. The Tulsa World has, Rev. Bill Wiseman Jr. was hard to pin down . His friends included the the likes of Tulsa County Democratic Party Chairwoman Elaine Dodd and Republican 1st District Congressman John Sullivan. [url=http://www.goldvk.com/Game.gw2_us.Guild Wars 2.gw2.Gold.Info.aspx]guild wars 2 gold[/url] His interests encompassed politics and religion, writing and aviation, the temporal and the spiritual. Wiseman died Wednesday with four other people when the plane he was piloting crashed near Glenpool. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at St. John's Episcopal Church. I considered Bill the brother I never had, Dodd said. [url=http://www.goldvk.com/Game.gw2_us.Guild Wars 2.gw2.Gold.Info.aspx]gw2 gold[/url] Bill and I met when I was a teacher and he was in the Legislature, and I would go there to lobby. We became fast and firm friends. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1974 at age 30, Wiseman served three high-intensity terms that made him a rising star in Oklahoma politics. In 1977, he introduced legislation that became the model for lethal-injection laws nationwide. But Wiseman, a Rockefeller Republican who took a hard line on fiscal policy but on social issues stood to the left of most Oklahoma Republicans -- and even most Oklahoma Democrats -- never really found a political home. In late 1979, he switched his registration to Democrat and was beaten the next year as a result. He was totally devastated when he lost, his former wife, Court of Civil Appeals Judge Jane Wiseman, said Thursday. [url=http://www.goldvk.com/Game.gw2_us.Guild Wars 2.gw2.Gold.Info.aspx]gw2 gold[/url] In the September/October 2005 issue of Mother Jones, Vince Beiser had a profile of Wiseman, A Guilty Man . I would label it a must-read. I always thinkabout my role, whenever I hear about a capital case being tried, hesays. It's always with me, like an old wound. Wiseman has nevermet George Miller, the convicted murderer slated for executiontomorrow, nor anyone else involved in the case. But he will beinescapably connected with Miller's death. Nearly 30 years ago, as ayoung state legislator, Wiseman wrote the bill that made Oklahoma thefirst jurisdiction in the world to adopt lethal injection as a means ofexecution. The method has since been embraced by 37 of the 38death-penalty states; in 21 it's the only method used. Miller, a37-year-old black man, will be its 797th victim nationwide. Wiseman pushed theconcept into law in an effort to expiate his shame for having voted torestore the death penalty in Oklahoma, despite his deep moralopposition to it. By introducing lethal injections, he had hoped to atleast make executions more humane. But at the same time, he nowbelieves, he also helped make them more common, by making it easier forsqueamish judges and juries to hand down the ultimate punishment. In asense, he says, I bear the responsibility for those deaths. Today, Wiseman'sinnovation is under fire as never before. In courts across the country,death-penalty opponents are attacking lethal injection as a violationof the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Citing newevidence suggesting that the method may actually cause excruciating, ifinvisible, pain, they have succeeded in at least stalling severalexecutions. Meanwhile, thanks largely to the doubts raised by the manydeath-row inmates exonerated by DNA evidence, the overall number ofexecutions has fallen by almost half in recent years, from 98 in 2000to 59 last year. None of that easesWiseman's guilt. This year, after decades of wrestling privately withhis regrets, he's getting ready to do something about it. xboter 2014

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