Posted on 02/11/2011 4:13:28 PM PST by SmithL
The New York Times ran an editorial today about federal judge Jeremy Fogel and his ruling five years ago in Morales v. Tilton. Fogel, it notes, ordered California "to halt all executions after he found that the way it administered its lethal injection created too much risk that an inmate would suffer extreme pain." Quoth the edit:
. . .For legislators in state capitols considering whether to abolish the penalty, however, this case has done much more than that. It has documented how lethal injection can be cruel and unusual punishment when unprofessionally administered and how the culture of prisons breeds that shoddy approach. It is one more reason to reject the death penalty as a barbaric punishment.
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So bury the accused up to his/her waste and trow stones at them until they are dead.
Look at some of those idiotic comments. One moron tried (and epic failed) to argue that life imprisonment was far cheaper to the taxpayer than lethal injection.
waist. Then waste him or her.
“It only hurts for a little while...that’s what they tell me...that’s what they say...”
Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher NewsomFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All pain comes to an end. Stick’em, fry’em, hang’em.
The magnitude of the offense is irrelevant.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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The New York Times has no problems with Iran hanging gays and stoning women!
But they have a cow about murderers being put to sleep with the same drugs that are used to euthanize pets!
Go figure.
The French were right about one thing- the guillotine. It is efficient, fast, and leaves no doubt about the end result.
State’s witness Bill McClellan gave this report of an execution that took place in Missouri earlier this week. (Go to http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/bill-mcclellan/article_070ac434-c714-5d2a-9a5a-6908346cd416.html for complete article.)
At 11:50 p.m., we were led toward the execution chamber. We walked past the “strip room,” where inmates change clothes and are searched after visits. We walked past the empty visiting area.
We were led into a small room. There were two rows of chairs facing a blue curtain. I sat next to Roach. He mused about the fact that had Elissa left the house two minutes earlier or two minutes later on that long-ago morning, none of us would be here. He said that once, when he was a young cop, he was at Fairground Park at 3 a.m. He saw headlights coming down Grand Avenue. Then headlights coming down Natural Bridge Avenue. They were the only two cars on the street and they were racing at each other like meteors. They collided. Sometimes that happens.
Two corrections officials opened the curtains. Link was lying on a gurney. He was wearing glasses, but his eyes were closed. He looked serene. He was covered with a white sheet. His breathing was shallow. I could see two leather straps, one for his wrists and the other for his legs. Tubing for an IV came from a wall and snaked up under the sheet.
Directly across from us was his family’s viewing area. The curtains were closed. To our right, but out of our sight, was the viewing room for Elissa’s witnesses.
Three drugs are used in the execution. The first renders the condemned unconscious. When it was administered, Link coughed. He did not appear to be in distress.
The second drug stops the respiratory process. The final drug stops the heart. I could see no discernible change in Link when the last two drugs were administered.
A corrections official announced that Link’s heart had stopped, and he had been pronounced dead.
“The execution of Martin Link is complete,” the official said. The curtains closed.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
That they identified the possibility of capital punishment is evidence that they did not see a conflict with the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
Isn’t hanging an instantaneous death?
It can be. depending on the age, weight and condition of the victim and length of rope. Using weights makes it instantaneous. Guillotine is instantaneous. I say let the inmates choose their method of death and do away with appeals based on cruelty.
What’s so “cruel and unusual” about literally putting some sub-human to sleep? The founders couldn’t conceive of a more gentle way to “deprive” someone of the ultimate justice. The Constitution specifically permits the death penalty. The accused are lucky that they didn’t live in the 1780’s It would have been hanging at the time.
There should be serious ramifications for people being this blindly, willingly, moronic.
Firing squad.
So I guess it’s okay to rape and/or murder a person.
Starve to death. The libs told us that it is painless and even EUPHORIC.
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