Firing squad. Guillotine. We have ways. Let’s just put them right out there, front and center.
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It most certainly does.
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I dunno, when the execution drugs fail to effect death by their designed mechanisms, but just cause so much unintended bodily trauma that he accidentally dies from that, I’d certainly call that “botched.”
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If there are no executions, then it’s hard to botch an execution. Just sayin’.
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If the state is going to take it upon itself to kill someone, they should at least make it quick, painless and without the terror that accompanies prolonged oxygen deprivation. Surely a little Valium to induce euphoria followed by a nice big dose of Versed, Fentanyl or Propofol should do the trick. Heroin addicts are executing themselves relatively painlessly all the time. How come those losers can get it right, but the states can not?
If it’s not “unusual”, does a prisoner still qualify to complain about it?
(Leaving aside that this particular fellow, in common with all executed, whether execution is “botched, brutal, horrible” or “clean, clinical, humane”, is not in any position to complain.)
I’m thinking that as this level of brutality becomes normalized in the execution states, it no longer can be called BOTH, and when it reaches the point of ‘garden variety’, ‘ho hum’, ‘normal normal’ (for executing folks), then it’s no longer so easy even to categorize as “cruel”.
Anyway, we no longer have rule of rational law in this country, so soon this particular horror won’t even be noteworthy.
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If my dog has to be put down his euthanasia will be a gentle and efficient experience. Humans deserve as much.
Those of you who revel in the suffering of the condemned need to meditate on compassion.
Go ahead. Take your best shot. Tell us what makes America the world’s greatest prison industry nation.
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At the rate this is going, it would actually be kinder. They’d die faster.
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We’re conjuring up new and more awful ways to kill prisoners. We’ll have hanging, drawing and quartering beat for depravity in a few years.
Other witnesses have described the “gasps and snorts” as snoring.
I can’t resist this:
“Wood’s lawyers had filed an emergency appeal in federal court while the execution was underway, demanding that it be stopped.”
Lawyers appealing an execution they knew to be underway. Is this a first? It says something about the execution that there was actually time to hear this.
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Ouch!
“Cruel but usual” ought to be SCROTUS’s tagline.
The Goopers want to make waterboarders out of everyone.
I find it intersting that Teasquats call this a feature not a bug.
There is perfection in your metaphor, tao. Even when a vicious dog needs to be euthanized, would any of the torture apologists in this thread applaud the idea of beating or choking that dog to death? How is it different? A judge makes a ruling, a dog must be put down for a vicious outburst – is there a man alive who thinks taking the dog’s life is insufficient, that the canine should feel agony as well? Why should humans be treated any less humanely by society at large? The death penalty is not about revenge. It’s about a judicial system taking a man’s life for his unspeakable acts. Society needn’t be unspeakable in the process.
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No it’s not “checkmate,” don’t you understand that? This “vicious death” didn’t happen accidentally. There was someone intentionally carrying out the execution, plus there was the state and ultimately the country in whose name this act was carried out. So there are lots and lots of people implicated–some of whom (like you) actually approve of this action (exactly the sort of “vicious murder” you are condemning him for). According to your logic, what are they (we) then owed?
It doesn’t sound like it’s the end of the game, not at all.
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I wouldn’t put it pass them.
My animal self says that he deserves no more sympathy than he showed his victims. My civilized self struggles to disagree.
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Heroin addicts are executing themselves relatively painlessly all the
time. How come those losers can get it right, but the states can not?
You’ve got a big heart. You should work in social services.
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There’s no doubt that he was an abusive and bad man. That does not change my opinion that the death penalty has no place in a civilized society. It is nothing but revenge.
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