California Executes Oldest Inmate

I know I usually write opposing the death penalty but today I write about the irony of it all. Mind you I ONLY oppose the death penalty because of the possibility of having convicted an innocent man.
California today executed its oldest inmate on death row, a 76 year old legally blind, nearly deaf, wheel chair bound diabetic.
Though the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence, Justice Steven Breyer filed a dissent, saying: "Petitioner is 76 years old, blind, suffers from diabetes and is confined to a wheelchair, and has been on death row for 23 years. I believe that in the circumstances he raises a significant question as to whether his execution would constitute cruel and unusual punishment. I would grant the application for stay."

The obvious irony being that America apparently only wants to execute young healthy men, others, such as the person described above, just kinda takes the fun out of it.