Judge halts lethal injections in California

AP via CNN ^ | 12/15/2006 | AP

[somemoreequalthanothers]

It's not like someone was raping him in a cold dark field after choking him with a belt...

In the case of this gentleman we should be looking for ways to make his death more painful. The media, in my mind, commits sin when they report on this guy and leave out the pertinent details such as you mentioned.

[Jo Nuvark]

For heaven's sake, "experts" can euthenize a horse or a dog (animals) in seconds... without pain.

I just don't understand this graduated execution process.

[antiunion person]

In my opinion, if this country went back to public hangings in the public square, where one and all could see what the result of committing a crime, actually looks like, we would see less crime. Less rapes, less murders, less everything. I'm not saying drag the convicted straight out from the court room to the gallows, but give the convicted, less say, ten days to plead his/her conviction. Public hangings use no electricity (save the environment), no chemicals to pollute the air, and no bullets from a firing squad to cause lead cancer. Using ropes is also part of conservation. We can use a rope more than once.

OR, go by the old 'eye for an eye' punishment. If you shot a person to death, you die by firing squad. If you stabbed a person, you will be stabbed to death. And so forth and so on. If a felon known he/she would experience the same type of death his victim did, he/she would, MAYBE, think twice about committing that crime.

But, of course, I may be wrong.

[Clintonfatigued]

This will surprise no one, but the judge is a Clinton appointee:

http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2757

[george76]

We could give an option to the victim's family.

Someone might like to pull the rope on the perp ?

[null and void]

Bring back the gas chamber.

Anoxia works for me. A lung full of pure nitrogen, and it's lights out.

[null and void]

Just use an N2 chamber. The squash gets hypoxic and "Night, night".

I was thinking more along the lines of a fishbowl helmet. No point in wasting an entire room full of nitrogen.

[null and void]

Welcome to FR...

[Hoodat]

Let me guess, Clinton appointee?

[null and void]

Wow, you must be psychic!

[Peelod]

It's necessary to dilute the exhaled CO2 to atmosphere to avoid the suffocation anxiety that accompanies acidosis.

N2 is cheap. There probably a N2 generator at your corner auto repair shop.

[eleni121]

NO doubt about it. He managed to stop the Muslims good.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"There is an unwillingness to have an honest discussion about execution among the powers that decide. Most wish the issue would go away and the others are against Capital Punishment. The fact is and execution is a simple brutal process that should be carried out by the quickest simple methods like a Guillitine or bullet in the head."

I realize I am a day late and a dollar short to this discussion, but I think the real discussion should be when is capital punishment the correct punishment and when is it not.

Those who complain about the methods, really just want to not have the discussion about when is it appropriate and when is in not.

Let me see if I can clarify what I mean: Is capital punishment the correct action when someone jay walks, or does not pay the parking meter, vs is capital punishment correct when lives are taken because someone can and wants to?

I happen to think the second situation might be appropriate, but the first situation is clearly not. This is the discussion that should be taking place. Some don't want any capital punishment, so they muddy the waters by arguing the methods of capital punishment.

[Jazzman1]

me TOO, and I dont even live there! lol

[tubasonum]

"Missing a vein when administering the injections would cause "both psychological and physical discomfort -- probably pretty severe," said Dr. J. Kent Garman, an emeritus professor of anesthesia at the Stanford School of Medicine in California."

I wonder if victim's family ever experienced psychological and phsysical discomfort... Left alone financial difficulties.

[Ouderkirk]

maybe we should ask his victim how the sentence should be carried out

/sarc

[LongViewSC]

The states never should have given up hanging and firing squads. Involving doctors in executions was a dumb move. It doesn't take a doctor to pull a trigger.

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

A federal judge declares California's application of the current method of execution unconstitutional.

But it's perfectly okay when some derelict decides to come along and murder someone else.

The judge is really showing us! He's showing us what a very lazy, uncompassionate, derelict of duty kind of person he really is!

I vote to fire all these freakin' judges who simply can't decide on the constitutionality of whether or not to swat a fly, kill a bee, a wasp, or any other annoying critter...

[Sgt_Schultze]

Gruesome impalement video. JIC you forget how evil is the enemy.