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.
ââŚthe state prison commissioner says there was no visible evidence that he suffered during a lethal injection.â
It appears to me that he suffered. He suffered death at the hands of an ostensibly pro-life state. Didnât anyone else notice this?
With Trump in power, having inmates suffer will be the point.
By now Iâve 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.
AL Dept of Corrections - where you are paid to ignore reality and lie to forward the hate / punishment by the State. âgee, I didnât see a thingâ.
Humane and execution are mutually exclusive concepts in my little opinion.
Remember the kerfuffle over Judge Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments monument. It seems like they forgot to read them.
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 sentenceâŚ
It seems that making the condemned suffer is feature of capital punishment for conservatives. I donât 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 âtwilightâ sedation during medical procedures. The patient feels the pain while during the procedure, but doesnât remember it. Itâs 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, youâd 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 âConsious Sedation.â itâs known for itâs ability to cause amnesia. If you donât remember how much your colonscopy hurt, then youâll probably show up for the next oneâŚSadly,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 wouldnât much want to sell that drug to the prison people. Oh well, in the age of Drumph weâll probably go back to stoning our condemned prisoners.
What i donât understand is why addicts can overdose but the gov. canât 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 âavoidable disasterâ? Look, it is Alabama, mind you.
They could always administer an overdoze of heroin or cocaine, but theyâre 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 donât see why we donât 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.
Youâre a proponent of the death penalty? Because itâs applied unequally? Because itâs more expensive than lifetime imprisonment? Because if itâs later found the condemned was actually innocent its effect is irreversible? Because there is no basis for any claim of a deterrent value? Because itâs good enough for us if itâs 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?