Experts testify on botched execution

gainesville.com ^ | 02/13/2007 | NATHAN CRABBE

[Tijeras_Slim]

If they got more practice....

[Ikemeister]

Awwww, poor baby!

[wastedyears]

A bullet to the top of the spine is also painless.

[AU72]

Not quite like the botched hanging of Sadaam's half-brother turning into a decapitation.

[Leisler]

Does government have to make everything complex?

Right between the eyes. It's painless.

[Little Ray]

Decapitation works - bring back the guillotine!

[P-40]

a botched execution

Botched? The criminal is dead. Sounds like it worked.

[Alouette]

What did his victims feel when they died?

[chiefqc]

But he declined to say whether he believed Diaz felt pain.

Simple answer, Don't do the crime.

One sure and complete system, Headfirst into a giant wood chipper - Quick and sure.

[Menehune56]

The obvious solution would be two to the head to quickly end what little suffering there is in the event of a botched injection. It wouldn't end the vicarious suffering of the media though.

[massgopguy]

And a "botched" abortion is where the baby lives? Where's the outrage?

[joe fonebone]

death by 90 story drop.....completly painless

[Responsibility2nd]

Here they hold a special commission to be certain that murderers are executed humanely.

For Terri Schiavo.... They withold food and water and let her die a slow torturous death.

Twisted.

[metesky]

Not a word about what vile crime he committed to warrent the death penalty. Bad "journalism".

[F.J. Mitchell]

Rational people don't really give a damn if convicted murderers suffer a little pain during their execution!( a whole lot of pain could really work as a deterrent to murderers) How many Murderers are careful to painlessly butcher their victim's?

Hanging, hacking or shooting was the only means of execution known to the writers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is obvious that they did not consider execution of those convicted in a court of law and found to be deserving of death to be cruel and/or unusual punishment.

Having allegedly evolved into a more civilized and sensitive society :-), than that of our founders, I don't believe any of us have a problem with administering executions as painlessly and mercifully as is possible. But quibbling over whether the executee feels even a smidgen of pain, is asininity taken to ultimate extremes.

[manic4organic]

Hey, he's dead so the death penalty worked.

[Responsibility2nd]

Other links say he killed a topless bar manager....

... 27 years ago.

27 years ago. Where is the special commission on why the state botched justice for 27 years?????

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6412077,00.html

[traditional1]

"he believed Diaz likely suffered in the execution"

Of course, the article totally ignores the execution that he was convicted of committing of the Manager of the Velvet Swing bar in Miami, where the bar manager was shot dead (maybe he was killed instantly, and didn't "suffer"?) during a robbery.

They disregard for the VICTIM of the homicide, while expousing on the "pain" that the perp suffered, shows the bias the Liberals ALWAYS exhibit toward the poor, defenseless, unfortunate MURDERER.

[dfwgator]

The only way an execution can be "botched" is if the condemned survives it.