Lethal injection does seem to verge upon cruel and unusual given this man’s circumstance. I’m sure there are other methods to carry out his sentence that would have been more effective and less like torture. Fumbling anaesthesiologists seem to manage to accidentally dispatch a number of innocent people, and I’m sure anesthesia isn’t painful. Just sic them on him.
Good grief. With all the opioid overdoses, just shove some fentanyl into him and be done with it.
I agree. There have been way too many horror stories from lethal injections. The sentence is death. Not death by slow torture. We need to go back to hanging. And this guy needs to have his sentence commuted to life in prison w/o parole. Seriously. This is nuts.
That being said, nitrogen asphyxiation is the way to go. Elemental gas that’s abundant and costs less than nothing. No drugs to find a vein for or discard because of expiration date. No need for anesthesia for that matter. Just fill the chamber with nitrogen and the condemned peacefully goes off to sleep and never wakes up.
“Cruel and unusual” is a shibboleth for anti-capital punishment, IMO. Punishment may be cruel, and it may be unusual, but it’s all relative if the punishment befits the crime