Posted on 04/03/2014 9:33:01 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
Do the same thing to a murderous piece of excrement and it's cruel and unusual punishment.
Maybe veterinarians should be hired to "put down" criminals.
I guess we could have injected him with something that causes cancer. Then we could have watched him die over a year or so.
That seems pretty common these days. I wonder how they would feel about that.
Sell's attorney is with an "anti-death penalty" clinic attached to the University of Texas specializing in trying to overturn death penalty convictions. This is not the first time she has brought litigation attacking the execution drug protocol.
http://prodeathpenalty.com/Pending/14/apr14.htm
>>UPDATE: When asked if he wanted to make a statement before his execution, Sells replied: “No.” Terry Harris, whose 13-year-old daughter, Kaylene Harris, was fatally stabbed by Sells in 1999 in South Texas, watched as Sells was executed, saying the injection was “way more gentle than what he gave out.” “Basically, the dude just took a nap,” the father told reporters later outside the prison. Earlier in the day, the US Supreme Court declined to halt the execution based on claims by Sells’s lawyers that he had the right to know the name of the provider of the drug that would be used in the execution. “My sister didn’t get the constitutional pain and suffering,” said Shawn Harris, the victim’s brother, adding that Sells’ punishment was “pretty easy” compared to what his sibling suffered: being stabbed 16 times and having her neck repeatedly slit.
How much did the lawyer bill for the last futile appeal?
Who paid him?
Is the lawyer not guilty of filing a futile appeal? Is there a fine for futile appeals?
Should the costs of prisoner maintenance during the futile appeals not accrue to the lawyer?
I don’t see how you get to “I am full of glee” when the starting point is “I think the punishment was shockingly lenient.”
It’s not a controversial drug. The death penalty is “controversial” to some people (yet abortion never is in MSM headlines). Pot no longer is “controversial”.
But someone decided to stop selling it to Texas to execute condemned murders under the rule of law and whoooaaaa it’s controversial.
Would rope be controversial?
It’s cruel and unusual punishment to have to put your life in the hands of a trial lawyer.
Yea, but the cleanup afterward is a real pain in the neck.
Not only that, we could have them built with prison labor. Imagine how much a criminal serving a regular sentence might rethink his life choices if he is putting together what potentially could be his undoing if he stays on that path.
I’m not say, I’m just saying.
Heck every VETERINARY has them. So how can they be in short supply?
Hanging from in front of the court house is my notion of justice, with a big audience. Sends a message.
Just as when we got licks in front of 34 other teens, they got the message! And that means 34 witnesses that there was NO abuse by the teacher.
It’s not really a case of who has them, its about whether or not they will give them to penitentiaries. That’s why something like the guillotine or like you say, hanging, is much more effective. You don’t have to depend on an outside source to get your means of fulfilling the sentence.
Worse case scenario, you have to send deputy Bob down to the Home Depot.
Jesus never said we were NOT to be held accountable to government for our crimes. Just that if we repented truly in our hearts He would forgive us.
We the tax payers and VICTIMS pay for it! Same goes when you must travel for a parole hearing. Victim made a victim again, to support the criminal who victimized them or their child.
Any Vet supply house has them, it is where Vets get their meds. Every hospital has Versed, just OD it.Pain meds will or sleeping pills, OD will bring death. Painlessly.
Why do you think I don’t take the crap? If I can’t hear the weather alarm I am in trouble, we live in tornado alley.
Just so.
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