Posted on 01/07/2008 11:25:49 AM PST by NormsRevenge
With the exception of the wrongly convicted man, if a murderer (and face it if on Death Row generally a murderer who did so gruesomely ) has to endure a few moments of excruciating pain before meeting their maker, I don’t see this as a problem.
I thought the same thing as you wrote. The victims suffered a lot more pain than these guys will.
What I like about this case is that it will take the lethal injection lawsuits out of the federal courts just like McCleskey v. Kemp took the racial disparity appeals out of the federal courts. Regarding California, I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the 9th Circuit lately. They’ve been upholding (and sometimes even reinstating) a lot of death sentences over the last few months.
What a concept. Caring about what is, and is not, in the Constitution. If he can get Justice Kennedy to think this way, this case won't be a problem.
“This is an ignorant intervention.”
No its not. There are some lethal injection cases in state supreme courts which are being delayed. I know CA for sure. This will put an end to them hopefully.
and there you have it.
In Florida, and, I suspect, the rest of the Nation, the AMA forbids any medical professional to administer any drugs to cause death.
True. These cases are a tremendous tax on judicial resources, at the expense of the rest of society. At some point, this needs to be seriously considered.
No MD will do it
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The SCOTUS would be 5-4 on the color of the sky...
That's the purpose of the paralytic drug that they argue against.
Even if the IV isn't inserted well and the drugs take a few seconds longer to take effect, they don't suffer long, and if the injection site were truly messed up, the paralytic wouldn't be as effective either.
Since the sedative is administered first, it is also doubtful that they are really suffering even if the drug that stops their heart takes a bit longer to take effect.
The three drug method works, and is reasonable. There is no good reason to stop it. If someone wants to develop and even better method of executing condemned prisoners, there is nothing wrong with that, but there is not sufficient reason to stop the current method from being used.
I don't give a damn if it's cruel, as long as it reamins usual.
You've got to have both together
You can't have one, without the other.
What part of "AND" don't Liberals understand?
Lets give prisoners the pro choice vote...
Otherwise, as a matter of punishment, there is no point to extinguishing a life if it is not to protect others.
On that grounds, hanging, shooting and electrocution are viable methods.
If the Supreme Court prohibits executions, I suspect there will be a rash of "posses" ensuring justice will be carried out. Such is the responsibilities of citizens when the government fails to enforce the law.
1) Hanging was the standard mode of execution at the time the “Cruel and Inhuman” clause was written. I gather that no form of execution less painful then several minutes of fully conscious suffocation and a broken neck was seen as violative of that clause by the Constitution’s authors.
2) I don’t agree with the crowd eager for an executed inmate’s pain, or at least indifferent to such pain. If law and society requires an execution, let it be done as easily as circumstance and technology allow. However there is no such a thing as a gentle execution and that much be accepted.
3) I’ve considered the question in the past and the only truly quick, painless, and humane form of execution I can arrive at is a high caliber bullet unexpectedly fired into the back of the condemned’s head. This is however done at cost to the shooter. Even the Nazis found this to do great psychological harm to their executioners, so how much more to decent contemporary prison officials who would be given this task.
4) The lethal cocktail seems the best compromise the current state of society will permit.
5) The next president can almost certainly count on three Supreme Court appointments and if a dem will assuredly appoint anti DP justices. Regardless of public support for the practice it is only a matter of time until the court puts so many restrictions and roadblocks as to effectievely abolish capital punishment.
That’s for catfish (bullheads)!!
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