[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[bboop]

What did his victim feel ...? They DO need more practice.

[Lx]

Ouch, I had that happen to me where the needle punctures the vein and you get this bubble growing on your arm.

Having said that, I think he's lucky that's all he got. What did his victims feel?

I remember reading somewhere that they can't use Doctor's for this since it is against their Oath or something. That's fine, hire a junky from jail, they know how to get their precious drugs into their veins and not waste them on muscle tissue!

[quadrant]

Does this event demonstrate cruel and unusual punishment to those being executed by lethal injection?
I think not. When that phrase was inserted into the Constitution, punishment was designed to cause the person pain. The pain was part of the punishment. Often, the executions were designed to be slow to maximize the pain.
Lethal injection is designed to spare the person pain. Any pain that may be caused is incidental to the execution and is unintentional.

[verum ago]

I'm originally from Idaho, and I think we've got a pretty good system: we use lethal injection, but should that prove "impractical," then it's off to the firing squad with your scummy @$$.

[sockmonkey]

Instead of using the veins in the inmate's arms, why don't they use the big fat one in their neck? Even if the inmate had lousy veins, it would be hard to muck things up using that vein.

[Garvin]

"A Florida inmate wasn't properly sedated and could have felt like he was suffocating in a botched execution last year"

One can only hope!