If they ever run out again, may I suggest a quick workaround:
Posted on 04/03/2014 5:42:58 PM PDT by mdittmar
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A serial killer was put to death Thursday in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers' demand that the state release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug.
Tommy Lynn Sells, 49, was the first inmate to be injected with a dose of newly replenished pentobarbital that Texas prison officials obtained to replace an expired supply of the powerful sedative.
Sells declined to give a statement. As the drug began flowing into his arms inside the death chamber in Huntsville, Sells took a few breaths, his eyes closed and he began to snore. After less than a minute, he stopped moving. He was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m. CDT — 13 minutes after being given the pentobarbital.
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Good to see the US Supreme Court ruled rationally against releasing the ID of the compounding pharmacy. If the defense lawyers were so worried about the purity and effectiveness of the drug, they should have sued to get a sample for testing, but they didn’t do that because that was not the intent. It just goes to demonstrate that the 90% of slimeball lawyers bring a disproportionate share of dishonor on the other 10% of practicing lawyers.
Its absurd how long it can take, Richard Ramirez aka the nightstalker a serial killer that was convicted of 13 murders spent from 1985 to 2013 on death row and he died from cancer.
Instead of an expensive drug that we the taxpayers have to pay for why not just use bleach?
It’ll get the same result and the executed won’t complain.
From what I’ve been reading lately all Texas had to do was to visit any e-cigarette store andpurchase a bottle of e-juice (nicotine) and inject it to kill him
that drug is as effective as it gets and they know it, its the same drug used for euthanasia in Swiss and Belgium
I’m so proud of Texas. My state.
I think the victims' survivors should get to chose what goes into him. ANYTHING they want.
If they did, they wouldn’t have made such a big deal out of trying to make sure the killer didn’t “suffer” while being executed.
The [lethal injection] vans, which cost £33,000 each, are fitted with closed circuit television, which permitted Li’s death to be watched by local members of the National People’s Congress gathered at the city’s funeral parlour. In the past, capital punishment was carried out by a single shot to the back of the head at execution fields outside Chinese cities and families of the dead were sent a bill for the bullet. Now the vans are circulating in several provinces, their clean and discreet method of killing hailed by officials as progress. Death by injection costs the state about £63 but is free to the victim’s relatives
I fully understand exactly how you feel.
Several years ago I had to attend a death penalty trial at the federal level. When the defense lawyer (a big name liberal) introduced himself to me, I had but one question for him.
“Why are you defending him?”
His answer? “It’s a job’’.
With that answer, I knew he was going to loose the trial. And he did. The death penalty was given as sentence.
As things progressed, and the normal course of appeals took place, I was very glad that the perp had a first class defense. It left him absolutely ZERO wiggle room in those appeals.
I’m an old fashioned gal. I firmly believe in innocent until proven guilty BEYOND reasonable doubt. If I were unjustly accused, you can bet your bottom dollar I’d hope for a really good lawyer. While unjust accusations don’t occur (well, didn’t used to anyway) often, they DO happen. Innocent people don’t belong in prison, and they don’t belong on death row either.
After experiencing that trial, I came out with a new found appreciation for juries, and for lawyers..both prosecution and defense. In ‘’our’’ case, each team was honorable, and justice was served. On a silver platter even.
Mickey Mouse courts and lawyers are disgusting.
Unfortunately, they exist, too.
Too many of them.
Perhaps. Unless they view him as one of them, a kindred spirit, and/or think/know they could be in precisely his spot should they get caught...
If they ever run out again, may I suggest a quick workaround:
man, what a monster. Thanks, wondered about the title.
Didn’t the libs give us the solution in the Terri Schiavo incident? Starving is humane and even euphoric
Good riddance to this vicious rapist-murderer.
Rat poison on hardware store shelf is pretty cheap and guaranteed to work.
Bingo. We have a innocent-until-proved-quilty system. It isn't perfect, just better than any other.
Yes, I understand. I think I saw something about his history on another thread.
I like lawyer novels where the lawyer wins one for the innocent. But in real life you have these sharks who are only in it for the money or notoriety. The excuses they use to prevent the execution of their clients are pathetic. They’re the same lawyers who’d demand the abortion of a child in seven months or less but try to keep a murderer on death row alive for decades. Sometimes it’s just hard to keep one’s self together when you read this stuff.
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