Posted on 09/28/2011 8:24:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Florida man convicted of killing a police officer during a traffic stop 33 years ago has been executed at the Florida State Prison. The governor's office said Manuel Valle was pronounced dead at 7:14 p.m. Wednesday. He was the first Florida prisoner to be executed with a new mix of lethal drugs.
Valle fatally shot Coral Gables officer Louis Pena in 1978. He also shot fellow officer Gary Spell, who was saved by his bulletproof vest.
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The constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. It does not guarantee a painless execution.
They should just OD them on heroin. People PAY to do that frequently. Sometimes they almost succeed, and PAY to do it again. It cannot therefore be construed as either cruel or unusual.
nitrogen asphyxiation - the cleanest, sure fire, low cost, environmentally friendly, painless way to execute someone
Justice.
“The Danish manufacturer of pentobarbital, Lundbeck, has also asked Florida to refrain from using its product in lethal injections.”
Gotta love the Europeans with their morals. They are fine with people, who are no longer of any value to society over there, being put to death (as in euthanasia), but not the same here.
Huh? Thirty-three (some) years??
Without getting into the DP itself as an “issue”, the gold standard was prior to FDR taking office. He was in Florida, and some nut job tried to shoot him - while Roosevelt wasn’t injured, the mayor of Chicago, Tony Cermak was severely injured.
Halfway through the trial, Mr. Cermak died. So, in midstream the defendant was charged with murder.
He was captured, arraigned, charged, tried, convicted, and executed.
In Thirty-three DAYS.
And for all that, they get a painless execution anyway.
Sounds like the combo worked just fine.
The reason I say that is that I believe that an execution should always be recognized as the violent act that it is.
Execution is the State taking a life. I abhor the clinical, medical veneer of a lethal injection...
As for the “new cocktail of drugs” Hey, it worked!
WTF took so long!!!!
Good riddance, you POS. May you rot in hell, along with the taxpayer-paid do-gooder lawyers that delayed this for 33 years.
It’s only a “controversy” when you’ve got a bunch of braindead celebrities luggin a load around in their Huggies. Everyone else could really give a ... Adios amigo!
so is a .45!
With a .45 you are not 100% sure of no suffering. Plus there is the blood splatter from potentially HIV contaminated blood.
Murderers on death row need to Man Up and stop all of their crying and whining about the sting they feel from the needle during their execution.
“You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!”
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