Doctor: Killing flawed at start

St. Petersburg Times ^ | February 12, 2007 | Chris Tisch

[Vicomte13]

Bullet in the base of the skull, then harvest the organs, sell them, and give part of the proceeds to the victims.

Don't harvest prisoners until a match shows up and the organs are needed, then do it at once.

In the meantime, every prisoner who isn't infected with something should have blood donations extacted every six weeks, plasma extracted every third day, bone marrow extracted when needed. No prisoner should die with two kidneys. The first should be taken upon the failure of the last appeal. Two thirds of a healthy liver grows back. Skin is useful for skin graft victims.

Death row inmates are properly understood as livestock, medical livestock.

Nothing personal, no need for excess pain. Just keep them very healthy, with tissues flowing, until their heart or lungs are a match, then a bullet to the brain stem and some deserving patient gets a new lease on life.

Efficient, sensible, just, utilitarian and Chinese.

[GATOR NAVY]

“Was he feeling anything? I don’t know.”

And to that I'll add "I don't care."

[cgk]

[Nathan Zachary]

"splashing chemicals into his flesh"

Not this crap again

My, what drama. 100% BS drama.

There would be no "splashing" at all. Does this doc think people are hollow, that if you miss a vein the IV fluid would just "splash" down the inside of your hollow arm?

This "chemical burning" BS is just that as well. The first drug is a seditive, which if missed, would be absorbed through the lymph system instead and just take longer. It would still knock him out in a few minutes, rather than a few seconds. The rest of the drugs would do their job as well, as they did, just take longer. He never felt a thing, unfortunately.

[Jeff Gordon]

Why not just fly the criminal up to 12000 feet and drop him out. Death would be instantaneous upon impact.

[dfwgator]

during the botched killing of condemned inmate Angel Diaz last year.

How do you "botch" a killing? What, the condemned ends up surviving?

[wafflehouse]

LOL you put a lot of thought in to that didnt you?

[Spiff]

Shooting or hanging is much easier and quicker. Lucky Florida didn't starve him to death like they did to innocent Terry Schiavo.

[Charles Henrickson]

Splish-splash
It went into his flesh
Longer then it took him to die
A flub-a-drug
Twitchin' like a jitterbug
Watchin' thirty minutes go by
Well, it didn't reach the vein
So he felt a little pain
But he still lived decades longer
Than the fella that he slain
Splish-splash
Here's a little news flash:
The problem was the years and not the minutes delay.

[packrat35]

He died so I say it worked just fine. I really don't give a flip if he suffered or not. Call me cruel but I don't care.

[txroadkill]

Heath said the execution team “did exactly 100 percent the wrong thing”

He's dead right? Looks to me like the doc's numbers are a bit off.

[Ethrane]

Columbia is as leftist as possible, and anesthesiologists are the highest paid of surgeons.

Hmmm...

Correct on the first, definitely not correct on the second....

And, don't call me a surgeon....I know who both my parents are.

[Ethrane]

Here's a solution....

Start a Central Venous Line in all people to be executed...it will be much less likely to infiltrate.

[Tamar1973]

The basics of the case are at wikipedia.

[pandoraou812]

I agree with you. Who cares if he suffered? I think suffering is good for them. Their victims suffered so why should we care if they do? If this is going to be an issue and stop executions then just bring back hanging or a firing squad. Seems simple enough to me.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Entirely too much hand wringing is going on over this issue IMO. I can't understand why they can't dope an inmate to be executed with barbiturates or whatever and then dump a load of cyanide into them. They'd be el deado, no argument.

[cpdiii]

Freon in high doses is a powerful anesthetic. It also is an arrhythmic agent. Put the bad guy in a chamber and flood it with freon. He will go to sleep and go into a fatal arrhythmia and also be deprived of oxygen. He will die very quickly, peacefully and effectively ever time.It is also very cheap and requires very little technical expertise.

[JSteff]

I have said for years that however someone kills another person is how they die... and televise it. If they burn someone to death... they get burned to death.

They shoot someone in the gut and that person dies... they get gut shot... and put it on TV.

They starve someone to death, they get starved to death.. and televise it.

I predict only about 1 or 2 per state would have sentence carried out and I predict a murder rate of near zero in under a year.

[Psalm 73]

"...the botched killing of condemned inmate Angel Diaz..."

Botched? Is he dead or not?
If he's dead, which was their intention, then it is not botched, it is an actual execution.
Or am I missing something?

[garylmoore]

He will probably experience more pain after his death than during his execution.