Posted on 06/10/2017 9:43:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A lawyer for an Alabama inmate put to death by lethal injection said Friday she is concerned his trembling limbs and labored breathing were an indication something “was not right” with the procedure.
Robert Melson, 46, was pronounced dead at 10:27 p.m. CDT Thursday at a southwest Alabama prison, authorities said.
Melson’s attorneys had filed a flurry of last-minute appeals seeking to stay the execution, arguing that the state planned to use a sedative that would not reliably render Melson unconscious before other drugs stopped his longs and heart. In December, an Alabama man coughed and heaved for the first 13 minutes of an execution and appeared to move slightly after two consciousness tests. […]
State prosecutors said Melson and another man who used to work at the restaurant, robbed a Popeye’s in Gadsden, 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of Birmingham, and Melson opened fire on four employees in the restaurant’s freezer. Nathaniel Baker, Tamika Collins and Darrell Collier were killed. The surviving employee, Bryant Archer, crawled for help and was able to identify one of the robbers as the former worker which led police to Melson. …
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“Why don’t they just euthanize them like a vet does an animal?”
Follow the money? How many jobs to keep him on death row for so long (21 years), how many jobs to kill him with these special chemicals that somehow can’t manage to do it as fast and cleanly as a vet does to a dog?
FReegards
Someone clue the lawyer in that lethal injections can cause distress leading to death.
Asspress loves communists, dictators, and murderers.
He didn’t seem overly concerned about causing 4 innocent people any physical or emotional distress when he killed them. How ridiculous is it for this libtard lawyer to show such concern for this societal tumor? He unfortunately got to live 21 years longer than his victims. They should have had a veterinarian come in and put him down like a mad dog. Or, toss a couple of cobras into his cell.
I have the funny feeling that death row lawyers work pro bono and their overall mission is to stop all executions. I also strongly believe that death row inmates are coached to moan, groan, scream that it burns, and generally lie about the pain.
I am a pharmacist. I know multiple ways to do this as do the authorities. This is all Bull Sh-t. He died painlessly and totally unaware. I regret that he was not aware.
I could care less about convicted killers. As I said, I have the same concern about their pain and distress as they showed their victims.
They should go back to public hangings. The prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment does not mean totally painless.
Why can’t we just do it as fast as a vet puts down a dog? I don’t get it.
Freegards
How cheaply could you get it done really fast, and how does that compare with how much tax money the authorities chose to use?
Freegards
“stopped his longs” I mean, come on, AP, you pay your editors, you’d imagine they’d actually spend ten seconds reading the story.
As for the topic, yep, execution worked, thank you very much, please leave a tip in the can on your way out of the observation room.
“Why don’t they just euthanize them like a vet does an animal”
Because the drugs are not FDA approved for that purpose (seriously), they can’t purchase them from the manufacturer and they can’t dose them properly.
If the public cannot accept conventional methods of execution that existed prior to 1900, then I think, reluctantly, the death penalty should be abolished. All the “humane” improvements on hanging, beheading, or shooting (electricity, gas, now drugs) cause unnecessary suffering and exist only because a fickle and squeamish public demands them.
“All the “humane” improvements on hanging, beheading, or shooting (electricity, gas, now drugs) cause unnecessary suffering and exist only because a fickle and squeamish public demands them.”
The ‘humane improvements’ also seem to have the effect of employing a lot more people than those earlier methods required as well. Also keeping the condemned around for 21 years seems like it would require more public funds and employees.
Freegards
Maybe because there’s no pain when a vet does it.
How much public money should be spent to cause the condemned to die painfully? Because it can be done for WAAAAAAAAY less if that is the goal.
Freegards
Maybe government indoctrination centers should re-new frog dissection in biology class ...... muscles twitch .... except with a head shot ..... immediate drop
Russians?
Th. Sowell:
“I’ve often said there are three questions that would destroy most of the arguments on the left.
The first is: ‘Compared to what?’ [I.e., how many other executions has this lawyer witnessed?]
The second is: ‘At what cost?’
And the third is: ‘What hard evidence do you have?’”
Regards,
Freon would work very well. The anesthetic gases that are used in surgery are analogs of this gas. You go to sleep but at high doses your heart will go into an arrhythmia and you die totally pain free and unconscious. Just a few bucks at most.
The problem with other gases and medicines that could be used is “ethical” manufactures refuse to sell them for the purpose of inducing death. The most kind would actually be a morphine drip at high doses. You just go to sleep and go into respiratory arrest and die. Actually very peaceful.
Your local Walmart has all the damn Freon you want at a bargain price. Carbon Monoxide also works well. It is available out the exhaust of any internal combustion engine. It is almost free. Both are pain free. With CO poisoning you die bright red in color. It has to do with hemoglobin.
There are many ways to end life painlessly.
For really bad guys or bad girls I would recommend “Amanita phalloide” the death cap mushroom. It destroys the liver over several days and you know you are dying in a most unpleasant manner. It can not be reversed unless caught very earlier and then the chance of survival is very small. Your blood chemistry goes insane as you also go insane. A most unpleasant death. You will also turn a very pleasing yellow color as you die due to bilirubin. However the Constitution has rules about cruel and unusual punishment. So the mushrooms are not an option.
If it was I I would opt for a 30-06. It always works and is instantaneous.
This twit has never watched someone die.
Give em some of the nasty fake percaset that’s on the streets now
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