Discussion: Advocates Call Alabama Execution An 'Avoidable Disaster'

This will only get worse now with Trump taking office, appointing judges, Sessions as AG, etc. I will not argue the merits of the death penalty, but if we are going to allow states to put certain criminals to death, the least we can do is ensure it is done in a humane manner. What this man experienced and the others detailed in this article experienced looks like torture to me.

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“…the state prison commissioner says there was no visible evidence that he suffered during a lethal injection.”

It appears to me that he suffered. He suffered death at the hands of an ostensibly pro-life state. Didn’t anyone else notice this?

With Trump in power, having inmates suffer will be the point.

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By now I’ve stopped caring AT ALL what befalls people in these right wing hell hole states. They know the drill. If you stay there you put your health and life at risk, and boy it sure sucks to be you.

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AL Dept of Corrections - where you are paid to ignore reality and lie to forward the hate / punishment by the State. “gee, I didn’t see a thing”.

Humane and execution are mutually exclusive concepts in my little opinion.

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Remember the kerfuffle over Judge Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments monument. It seems like they forgot to read them.

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Simple solution:
Require the Governor herself/himself to perform the execution with a shot to the neck with a .45.
I think the rate of commuting for death sentences would go up.

( I read that In old times German judges delivering a death sentence, were required to attend the execution as an onlooker. It sort of concentrates the mind during judgment, I assume)

You could also abolish the death sentence…

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It seems that making the condemned suffer is feature of capital punishment for conservatives. I don’t think they want it to be painless. Midazolam is a benzodiazepine, like Valium, and can be used to sedate a patient before s/he receives anesthesia for surgery or other medical procedures. I think it can be used for ‘twilight’ sedation during medical procedures. The patient feels the pain while during the procedure, but doesn’t remember it. It’s like getting nitrous oxide before having all of your teeth extracted. It puts you in a different mental state, it calms and relaxes you, but without the actual anesthesia, you’d feel every bit of the pain while your teeth were being extracted.

Conservatives are very comfortable with big government. In fact, their entire movement depends on big government.

interesting that midazolam is generally used for something called “Consious Sedation.” it’s known for it’s ability to cause amnesia. If you don’t remember how much your colonscopy hurt, then you’ll probably show up for the next one…Sadly,lots of people who get it for procedures end up remembering what happened, or worse only sort of remember. Probably not a very good execution sedative. I suppose the makers of propofol wouldn’t much want to sell that drug to the prison people. Oh well, in the age of Drumph we’ll probably go back to stoning our condemned prisoners.

What i don’t understand is why addicts can overdose but the gov. can’t find a way to kill convicts as easy?

With Trump in power, having inmates suffer will be the point.

Charliee, you make it sound like Trump would allow torture and worse.

An “avoidable disaster”? Look, it is Alabama, mind you.

They could always administer an overdoze of heroin or cocaine, but they’re probably worried about the condemned becoming addicted. That seems to be the way their minds work.

The south will always be a drag on decent society.

As a proponent of the death penalty, I don’t see why we don’t return to hanging or the firing squad (Utah).

Done properly, death is instantaneous and the condemned does not suffer. In my opinion, both of these methods are preferable to the electric chair, gas chamber, and lethal injection where death is painful and can take a short period of time to arrive at certifiable death.

You’re a proponent of the death penalty? Because it’s applied unequally? Because it’s more expensive than lifetime imprisonment? Because if it’s later found the condemned was actually innocent its effect is irreversible? Because there is no basis for any claim of a deterrent value? Because it’s good enough for us if it’s good for China, North Korea, Yemen, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq? Or is it just all those things taken together that sells you on the concept?