I'm okay with that...
Posted on 10/05/2007 4:50:26 PM PDT by Libloather
No right to a painless death penalty
Posted: October 3, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
When Michael Anthony Taylor kidnapped 15-year-old Ann Harrison while she was waiting for her school bus, then raped and brutally murdered her, he didn't seem to care about the pain and agony she suffered at his hand. But now that Taylor has been convicted and sentenced to capital punishment by lethal injection, he's suddenly concerned with how much pain he might feel at his deserved death.
Taylor claims that Missouri's triple-chemical process of lethal injection exposes him to a risk that if he is not sufficiently unconscious he could feel pain but be unable to indicate so. (If this is where I am supposed to feel sorry for Taylor, I'm sorry, but I don't.) Taylor argued to the federal courts, and will soon argue to the Supreme Court, that this chance of pain constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But Taylor obviously knows what it means to inflict cruel and unusual punishment, and a mere chance of pain is not enough for him to avoid an immediate execution.
The Supreme Court's decision to hear Taylor's case is already causing other states to scramble. In Alabama, Gov. Bob Riley, in a knee-jerk reaction, stayed the execution of Thomas Douglas Arthur, who was supposed to die on Sept. 27 for a 1982 murder-for-hire. Arthur was convicted of shooting Troy Wicker through the eye as his victim slept. While we will never know whether Wicker suffered pain in his death, Gov. Riley is changing Alabama's execution protocol to make sure murderers like Arthur slip peacefully and painlessly away under the watchful and monitoring eyes of state doctors and officials.
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I, too, am concerned about how much pain this poor, lost soul might feel upon his untimely demise. I would suggest injecting him using a rusty 1/2” pipe jammed up his bum. Turn the pressure washer up to full.
Just hang him now.
The executioner can go fast or slow as he wishes and even take a tea break at length secure in the knowledge that the criminal being executed is feeling nothing.
I'm okay with that...
Just hang the bastard.
Mercy in the name of justice means that we won't torture the perp the way he did his innocent victims.
If I were allowed to reach back in time for a sterner justice, this perp would be roasted alive over a slow fire.
who cares how he dies ~ if it is painful....tough shi-ite...
just put this POS down!!!!
A haiku moment
Begging for kindness he blurbs
I don’t wanna die.
I’m starting to wonder why we even have a death penalty in this country when we do not use it. I live in Pennsylvania where you can commit the most heinous of murders and get the “death penalty” and then live out your life in jail, going through appeal after appeal, sticking it to us for hundreds of thousands of dollars in court costs and legal fees, and in then end die in jail an old man of natural causes.
I feel no sympathy for a vicious murderer/rapist. Once you take away another’s right to live, you lose your right to live. End of story.
Give Ann Harrison’s father a baseball bat. He will make sure that Taylor is sufficiently unconscious.
Problem solved.
Flamethrowers. It will shed a little light on the death penalty debate.
Don’t forget to bring the marshmellows, and I don’t mean liberals and leftists.
Well, shucks. Just have him suck on a stick of C-4, detonate that puppy, and he won’t feel a thing. Or let him eat a bunch of Cumatin (Warfarin - rat poison) and let him gently bleed to death internally. I guess you could label me as a “pro-choice” kind of guy.
Of all those executed around the world, none have complained of pain. I don’t see a problem.
In the mean time show Saddam’s hanging non-stop on his TV.
It’s persons like Taylor that make reservoirs of mercy run completely dry. All I gotta say is, “Too damned bad - fry his arse like a pork skin.” We’ll worry about the pain later....
AND send him a care package of jute neckties.
shoot him in the face and throw his corpse in a ditch
Just let the “boys” in Block B-F have a go at him first, be begging for a quick death then.
Cover him with honey and tie him to an ant hill with millions of SMALL ants.
skin that POS alive... then set his azz on fire!!! i'll bet the needle will look pretty good to him by then.
Two Steal plates.
One on the ground. One suspended at least 16 feet up. Upper plate should weigh at least 1 ton, preferably 10 tons.
The condemned lies on lower plate. Upper plate released.
No pain.
Area should be surrounded with plastic sheeting for easy cleanup.
Whatever he did to Ann Harrison should be done to him. He obviously didn’t think that what he did was cruel and unusual punishment, so if, he thought it was good enough for her, it is certainly good enough for him.
Fine, ask for execution by guillotine.
Give him the choice of hanging or being starved to death like Terry Schaivo. Didn’t the Lieberals assure us that hers was a painless death?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
As far as inflicting pain goes, medically one of the least painful means of execution was supposed to have been the guillotine. Maybe in this one case . . .
I don' care one way or other about lethal injection, but I am totally against the electric chair. Electric bleachers, however, would be fine. They would be aluminum, and you could just hook up the ones on the end, and make the ones in between hold hands. that way, they'd all have company.
That being said, as much fun as it is to creatively explore the various ways to execute someone, I think our society would not be served best by the brutality of the execution, but by the certainty of it.
Look back through old case histories, and you find open-and-shut cases which took less than 2 months from capture to execution. With DNA to help establish certainty of guilt, the cottage industry of lawyers playing appeals roulette should wither, but it seems to grow.
People whose only interest in the case is self-righteousness or some self-serving agenda should have no involvement -- Let the family of the victims form their own counsel, and render the decision if the means of execution is sufficiently pain-free.
Off him the way those who wrote "cruel and unusual punishment" would have. If hanging or firing squad was good enough for them it's good enough for me. Well, good enough for me if I do something as stupid as this guy.
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