Lethal journey draws to a close (activities at San Quentin on Tookie's last day)

contra costa times ^ | 12-5-05 | Simerman

[SJSAMPLE]

"A physician will then pronounce Williams dead and the witnesses will leave. The manual states that his body will then be removed from the table "with care and dignity" and placed in a body bag."

You mean we won't have somebody to stand over his gurgling body, eating a sammich and laughing?

[Buffettfan]

I really hope that Arnold doesn't cave on this one.

[Buffettfan]

[[You mean we won't have somebody to stand over his gurgling body, eating a sammich and laughing? ]]

Doug,

That was cold but I loved it. :)

Jarhead

[Semper Paratus]

I want to know what his last meal will be.

[doug from upland]

I didn't write that one.

[doug from upland]

I'm pretty sure he turned down a last meal.

[doug from upland]

OFFICIAL TOOKIE COUNTDOWN THREAD

[yldstrk]

What did he do again? Just to refresh people's memories.

[Buffettfan]

Opppps, sorry Doug, my mistake. I see that Sample wrote it. I'm still smiling :)

[ncountylee]

Good detail, thank you.

Hope I can find a station to hear the lib's wail at 12:01:15.

[StoneColdTaxHater]

I he dies, California burns....bet on it. I am glad I am not there

[Semper Paratus]

I always wondered why they would have one. I'm pretty sure if I'm facing death a baked stuffed lobster and a hot fudge brownie sunday would not be on my mind.

[Steely Tom]

The rules are spelled out in grim detail, in the innocuously titled "San Quentin Operational Procedure No. 770."

Gee. When was the last time the public was told "the grim details" of Tookies shotgun spree against four innocent people just trying to make an honest living?

[doug from upland]

You can listen online starting at 3pm Pacific. The link in No. 8 above will help you.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I wish I could take credit for this one but in all honesty I can't since I heard it on Imus today

GIVE THE DRIP TO THE CRIP!

[kx9088]

Legal challenges have claimed that malfunctions can cause tortuously painful death even as the inmate appears sedate. The challenges have keyed on pancuronium bromide, which could mask agony if the sodium pentathol fails to render the inmate unconscious.


I don't see a problem here if this were to occur.

[weezel]

So that makes it a win win situation.

[fizziwig]

"If he dies, California burns....bet on it. I am glad I am not there"

South Central LA may burn, but anywhere else....not likely.

I live in California and am not the least bit worried.

[Kenton]

Legal challenges have claimed that malfunctions can cause tortuously painful death even as the inmate appears sedate. The challenges have keyed on pancuronium bromide, which could mask agony if the sodium pentathol fails to render the inmate unconscious.

Yeah, maybe. Except at 50 times the normal dosage for surgery, the sodium pentathol not only renders him unconscious, it also renders him 100% dead. Then they hit him with two more things that do the same thing. Except that you can only kill this bastard once, and the sodium pentathol will do that all by itself.

That's too bad, in a way. I'd say it would be more appropriate to substitute saline solution instead of the sodium penthol. Then Drano.