Links With Your Coffee - Saturday
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a limerick from Mad Kane
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The 16 minutes it took Christopher Newton to die once chemicals began flowing into his veins was the longest stretch that any of the state's inmates executed since 1999 has endured, an Associated Press review shows.
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the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), was described by the official publication of the Robins Air Force Base as "an official US Air Force 60th Anniversary event." The paper stated that the religious groups and the United States Air Force "have joined tog
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Bush on climate change, fuck you world.
Comments
I think lethal injection must be a horrific way to die. I read up about it a long while back and it fits my personal definition of awful way to go. Paralysis while your lungs shut down or some such... Even if it goes right it would still be more drawn out than being shot.
May seem strange but I would sooner be executed in China or somewhere by a bullet in the head than any of the more "enlightened" countries that do it by hanging, electric chair or lethal injection.
Though at least they wont steal your organs....
Death Penalty
Barbaric.
When will the United States finally take part in the Renaissance of the 21st century?
Jo Ann,
I'm against the death penalty, as well, but what do you propose we do with people who have, for example, raped and murdered numerous children or some such? If they are ever set free back into society, society will ostracize them to the highest degree. The states make sure that everyone within the area of the perpetrator knows of his or her whereabouts and you can bet that constant intolerance from the entire community ensues. No one wants to hire someone like that, either. These people basically become homeless, jobless wanderers because no one accepts them. And yes, some just commit suicide and get it over with: the logical thing to do in that case.
If no one will tolerate someone who was once on death row in their community, the perpetrator is better off dead. Sad but true.
The only solution would be a "life sentence" that really meant behind bars until you croak.
Yes, I know that doesn't presently exist in most states, if any.
I am very opposed to the death penalty but society has a right to be protected from violent crimminals. A true 'life' sentence is the obvious solution but it appears to be politically impossible to do that.
The world is a slightly better place when violent crimminals are taken off the street. It doesn't improve when you kill them.
These so-called humane ways of killing people, lethal injection, etc., are humane for the exocutioners, not the person being put down. We don't want to see the blood.
Death is too easy on the guilty and too horrendous on those falsely convicted.
As far as I remember, lethal injection involves IV administration of three components: a barbiturate, a muscle relaxant, and potassium. The barbiturate is administered first to induce anaesthesia, which is then followed by the muscle relaxant to cease respiration, and the potassium to induce cardiac arrest. The person being executed should not be aware of anything beyond the administration of the barbiturate, so I don't see why this would in any way be a painful experience as some previous comments have expressed concern over. In fact, a similar triad of drugs is used for the induction of anaesthesia for cardiac surgery. If you want to be certain, you could ask people receiving this surgery whether their experience was painful or not, but I suspect the answer will be no.
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