Oklahoma to consider executing death row inmates with drugs vets use to put down animals

DailyMail ^ | 8:39 AM on 10th November 2010 | Daniel Bates

[MHGinTN]

You’re wrong and mean-spirited, but that is nothing new from the ‘kill the carrot crowd which worked FR so vigorously when Terri was being murdered on Jeb’s watch. If Terri was dead already, how come the bastard that murdered her gave her doses of morphine to mask the pain? Your dead soul is showing ...

[Osage Orange]

Agreed.

[TASMANIANRED]

And what’s the problem with this?

[TASMANIANRED]

“to ensure that it is safe to use.”

Idiots, it’s not supposed to be safe, it’s supposed to be lethal.

[jacknhoo]

"If there were never capital punishment there would be no Christianity."

If you prefer to live in the first century, and why not?!
Muslims live in the 7th and we all see just how "right" and "just" their actions are.
Myself...I prefer to live in eternity, which demands our consideration of circumstances in time.

There are many ways of defending human lives against an unjust aggressor, today.

"Capital punishment is just, and it's right."

To be good, according to Christianity, every moral act must satisfy three elements:

First, the act itself must be good.
Second, the intention of the one doing it must be good.
Third, the circumstances must be appropriate.

In the developed countries, like the United States, the
possibility exists to incarcerate criminals for life,
removing definitively any threat to society.

If non-lethal means are sufficient to defend and protect
people's safety from the aggressor, authority should limit
itself to such means, as these are more in keeping with
the concrete conditions of the common good and more in
conformity with the dignity of the human person.

Today, in fact, as a consequence of the possibilities which
the state has for effectively preventing crime, by
rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of
doing harm - without definitively taking away from him the
possibility of redeeming himself - the cases in which the
execution of the offender is an absolute necessity are
extremely rare, if not practically non-existent.

The third element of a good moral act, is practically
impossible to meet, within the United States and other
developed nations.

[jacknhoo]

I thought Philadelphia was the city of brotherly love...who would have thought? Just like religious, social, cultural, political, ethical, racial, etc, self absorption knows no geographical boundaries either.

The overwhelming majority of studies taken in the past decade that deal with the death penalty system as it exists in various states within the US, have found that it inevitably costs more than a system where life without parole is the harshest punishment available.

[flowerplough]

“costs more than a system where life without parole is the harshest punishment available” because of people like you, and because of the lawyers that people like you hire and becasue of the judges appointed by the politicians that people like you vote for. Jehovah God slung the death penalty all over the Torah, and Jesus later suggested that he without sin throw the first stone. I ain’t at all squeamish about splitting the difference.

Honest, above-board trial and conviction?

Then smoke ‘em.

[null and void]

We live in an imperfect world. Sometimes you simply must take out the trash.

If you'd spend a little more time in the OT, you'd see a number of times when God Himself called for the death penalty, including one rather remarkable instance where He commanded that every man, woman, child and farm animal be killed.

First, the act itself must be good.

Cutting somebody up is bad. Cutting out a cancer is good.

Second, the intention of the one doing it must be good.

Making the world a safer place is a noble intention, locking up ordinary criminals with a rabid killer and exposing them and the guards to the ongoing risk of being his next victim, not so much.

Third, the circumstances must be appropriate.

A judge and jury have determined guilt and the punishment (based on the horrificness of the crime, the death penalty is only applied in acts of extraordinary cruelty), the defense team has been through endless appeals and legal chicanery, the Governor has refused clemency, the act itself is done to minimize pain and suffering.

Which part was inappropriate?

[null and void]

The overwhelming majority of studies taken in the past decade that deal with the death penalty system as it exists in various states within the US, have found that it inevitably costs more than a system where life without parole is the harshest punishment available.

I see. Money is more important than justice.

Got it.

[Osage Orange]

Let me just say a couple things.....

One, please go spend a day or two at a maxium security prison.

Then come back here and tell us about all the human dignity, morals, and redemption you saw inside.

Secondly, from where did you copy that post from?

[LightningStriker2010]

Ha! I’m still trying to figure out how to safely kill someone. What an oxymoron.

[LightningStriker2010]

"could well result in a torturous execution"

And the problem is?