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Pfizer’s Lethal Injection Drug Ban Raises Fears of Alternative Execution Methods in US
The Guardian ^ | Saturday 14 May 2016 | Jamie Doward

Posted on 05/15/2016 12:40:26 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: IndispensableDestiny

Use the same drug that Vets use to put down horses.


21 posted on 05/15/2016 5:40:25 AM PDT by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: GailA

This, to me, is the perfect illustration of the cognitive dissonance of the “progressive” type. One Obama supporter told me that conservatives are “inconsistent” because conservatives are against abortion but favor the death penalty. I told him that first off only a fool would not recognize that if that position is inconsistent the liberal view which favors abortion but condemns the death penalty MUST also be inconsistent since it is the mirror image. In reality both are consistent but the conservative position is consistently logical and reasonable while the liberal view is consistently ILlogical and UNreasonable. It is amazing how such confused people can imagine that they are the soul of logic and reason.


22 posted on 05/15/2016 6:09:28 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: nickcarraway

Re-introduce hanging and the electric chair—Hell, even firing squads.

Then, stop all further FDA approval of Pfizer clinical trials.

Actions have consequences.


23 posted on 05/15/2016 6:14:07 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: nickcarraway

Firing Squad gets my vote. Ammunition is cheap, plentiful and there is an endless supply of firing squad volunteers across the Nation.


24 posted on 05/15/2016 6:17:43 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: nickcarraway

“Human rights groups have welcomed news that pharmaceutical firm Pfizer is to block the sale of its drugs in the US to perform executions”

Don’t worry folks, while it won’t be available to use on serial killers, it’ll still be available to euthanize children in Europe.


25 posted on 05/15/2016 6:25:57 AM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: RipSawyer

I’d be willing to give up capital punishment if it ended abortion. That trade includes a lot of big ifs though and I doubt the left would ever make that deal. They are totalitarian in nature and part of the death culture.


26 posted on 05/15/2016 6:31:15 AM PDT by xp38
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To: nickcarraway

I think the victim’s family should decide how to kill the convict.


27 posted on 05/15/2016 6:32:47 AM PDT by anton
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To: nickcarraway

Battery acid is a viable alternative.


28 posted on 05/15/2016 6:48:04 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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I think the victim’s family should decide how to kill the convict.

Slippery slope - leading off in all sorts of nasty directions.

That's why punishment for crime should be a community decision. (neither the decision of an oligarchy nor a vendictive induvidual) If you don't like the way your community punishes crime, move. If the oligarchy is the problem, deal with that oligarchy!

e.g. Don't do drugs in Singapore! Or chew gum or 'key' parked cars.

29 posted on 05/15/2016 6:55:12 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: xp38

“Part of the death culture” seems an apt description to me. It is amazing to see a brain dead liberal atheist proclaim upon hearing of the death of someone like Andrew Breitbart, “Maybe there IS a god after all” in a sickeningly sarcastic tone. Then the same person accuses conservatives of being “uncompassionate”. They care about no one except themselves but they project that quality onto others who are, in many cases, devoting a major part of their own resources to helping people they have never met. Apparently “uncompassionate” means someone who is against STEALING from one to give to another.


30 posted on 05/15/2016 6:59:51 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Good idea!

“Execution by “drug overdose”...

We need to dispose of drugs seized from dealers anyway and

Maybe it would “send a message” to people considering having their first “experience” with addictive drugs.


31 posted on 05/15/2016 7:02:13 AM PDT by pfony1
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To: nickcarraway

Piano wire strung from meat hooks still works.


32 posted on 05/15/2016 7:06:26 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (DAD, Why did you drag us kids kicking and screaming from the Rockys to the tick infested Ozarks!)
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To: Pontiac

I had a tank of helium from the welding supply store. I filled a balloon and was teasing my wienerdogs by barking at them with a high voice. I took one too many breaths of helium. Helium that is found in balloons at most carnivals and dollar stores etc. is mixed with air to save money. Helium from a welding tank has no air mixed in.

With no warning or sensation that I was short of breath I collapsed and hit my chest against the corner of our wood stove on the way down. When I regained consciousness our wienerdogs were licking my face. I was lucky that this didn’t result in any brain damage, at least none that has been proven... my wife might not agree, Their is no pain, sensation or mess from breathing an inert gas that has displaced oxygen and yes it will kill you. And you don’t need to fill a room with it. A bag filled with helium put over someone’s head will kill them quickly, and with no sensation.

I believe the reason this method is not used is because it is so easy and so painless that the authorities do not want it publicized for fear that it would increase suicide and euthanasia deaths.


33 posted on 05/15/2016 8:10:58 AM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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Barking man on helium bump.


34 posted on 05/15/2016 8:11:55 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Unfortunately, it is not the stupidest thing that I have done. LOL


35 posted on 05/15/2016 8:13:33 AM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: fireman15

Any story that starts: “I had a tank of helium from the welding supply store....” Has got to be good.


36 posted on 05/15/2016 8:14:54 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

I may have revealed my redneck roots.


37 posted on 05/15/2016 8:18:18 AM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: central_va

If helium wasn’t so expensive, I definitely would have tried the lawn chair and balloon trick. Instead I started with jumping off of my grandmother’s roof and graduated to hang gliding.


38 posted on 05/15/2016 8:23:14 AM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: nickcarraway

“Pfizer makes its products to enhance and save the lives of the patients we serve.”

Remember those words when the government starts mandating euthanasia for elderly people. Pfizer will be first in line to sell and promote drugs to eliminate the old people.

BTW, what is the difference between a drug for executions, and a drug for euthanasia of the elderly?


39 posted on 05/15/2016 8:37:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: nickcarraway

But Pfizer makes abortifacents.

Simply put, this would end the moment the U.S. said, “Because of Pfizer’s actions, we will not longer be recognizing any of Pfizer’s patents. Anyone who wishes to make similar drugs, know that the US will not ban them or prosecute you.”

It’s all about the money...


40 posted on 05/15/2016 8:48:22 AM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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