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Posted on 05/01/2007 7:51:50 AM PDT by SmithL
DEATH PENALTY opponents will say anything, no matter how unbelievable, to stop an execution during the appeals process. There is no claim too bogus for some lawyers and activists -- and apparently no claim too bogus for some medical journals. Last month, a second medical journal printed an article that suggestesd lethal injection may routinely subject death-row inmates to agonizing pain before they die.
In California, the three-drug lethal-injection protocol starts with 12.5 times the amount of sodium pentothal needed to begin invasive surgery, and is followed by lethal doses of two other drugs. The protocol is designed not to cause uncessary pain, and certain death. And that is what it does.
But wait. The online edition of PLoS Medicine -- a San Francisco-based medical journal -- features a peer-reviewed article, "Lethal Injection for Execution: Chemical Asphyxiation?" It said,
"Our findings suggest that current lethal injection protocols may not reliably effect death through the mechanisms intended, indicating a failure of design and implementation." That is, the wrong drug might have killed some inmates or might not have. The article concluded that lethal injection practices "probably violate" the Eight Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
PLoS also ran an editorial that noted that, "Each of the editors of PloS Medicine opposes the death penalty." Also, "no ethical journal" would publish research about painless ways to administer lethal injection. And -- no surprise -- America should end the death penalty.
The PLoS piece follows an article that appeared in the British medical journal, The Lancet, in 2005. That piece cited toxicology blood samples taken from executed inmates, and reported that post-mortem concentrations of the sodium pentothal "were lower than that required for surgery in 43 or 49 executed inmates."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Just hang ‘em high and often.
On the other hand, I’ve never seen a lead slug in the brain stem fail.
There've been any number of stories of men who've died quickly entering such environments, on boats or in (storage) tanks.
Rubber stamp.
Too “painful”. If they want painless execution, I guess they should consider decapitation by guillotine.
But who cares if they suffer pain? Since when is painless death a guarantee of the Eighth Amendment? The criteria is cruel and unusual. Death by injection is neither cruel nor unusual (although there are those who want to make it so). If we were to execute a killer by any means less painful than he or she inflicted upon the victim(s) of the crime, then it would be neither cruel nor unusual since the killer demonstrated he or she was more cruel and the very crime proved it was not unusual. Like nearly every other Constitutional Amendment, the provisions of the Eighth are being wrested all out of logic and proportion to fit someone’s agenda. They want to believe that any inflicted unnatural death is cruel and unusual.
If I recall correctly the reason the Lodi killer got the death penalty in the first place was because his murder was particularly heinous, involving torture and such. That we should prissily worry about him feeling like he can’t breathe a few moments before he dies is an affront to civilization.
So....just load them up with heroin. What’s the difference.
I prefer executions consistent to the method of death for the victim. you shoot someone, and let them bleed out, that’s what you get. Slit their throat....ditto.
Why get hung up on all this painless death BS.
This kind of lunacy and liberal crap will continue until someone stands up tells these fools to either like it, or get the hell out of California. I cannot believe how these morons are pandered to...
Did these murderers care what pain their victims felt? NO!!Enough is enough. Let there be pain.... IMHO there should be pain & lots of it.
Injection of succinyl choline by itself IS excruciating. I received it once prior to a surgery before the pentothal had taken effect. It felt like every one of my bones was on fire.
I’m relieved to see this. Not because I have any concern for painful asphyxiation death in convicted murderers (so what?) but because of the several cherished pets over the years that I’ve had euthanized when their time came.
That give safe harbor to illegal alien terrorists.
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Paul Johnson beheaded
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During the procedures I didn't feel a thing and after I woke up I didn't remember *a thing*.
So there's at least *one* drug out there that would make an execution completely painless.
The friends of our Democrat leadership...the ones that we must talk with...the ones that are misunderstood...the ones we must surrender to...
No problem just hang them.
I guess if you consider having an IV put in excruciating and inhuman, then they have a point. I’ve had 8 surgeries in the last 10 years and thats been the most painful part.
We could just gas them and then inject them if their afraid of the IV.
The claims by anti- death penalty whiners are not only bogus; they insult anyone's intelligence. I have had surgery several times, I not only didn't feel a thing, but I'd wake up and ask them if they did the surgery. Even though the surgery may have taken hours, I had no sense that time had passed at all.
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