Posted on 01/03/2015 7:31:29 PM PST by bkopto
Recent botched executions aren’t doing much to sway proponents of the practice in a number of states where it remains legal — in fact, they’re causing states to look at older and potentially more brutal methods of execution, according to a recent report.
Oklahoma’s most recent execution of Clayton Lockett in April was an extremely disturbing one, in which he writhed while being pumped with lethal drugs, prompting executions to eventually draw the curtains for the gallery. The warden described it as a “bloody mess,” according to the Associated Press.
The execution joined a pair of others in Ohio and Arizona, giving capital punishment opponents ammunition to attack the legality of the practice, hoping to use the incidents to encourage people to change their minds on the death penalty. However, the report indicates that the campaign does not appear to be working.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin suspended further executions after the incident with Lockett, but only to review the methods of execution, and months later unveiled an overhauled execution chamber that will resume killing the condemned in January.
In fact, the recent ugly deaths have caused states to explore older methods of execution due to the difficulty in securing the right lethal drugs.
Lydia Polley, a member of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, said in the report that the group had a “flash of hope” that the botched execution would help their cause, but it ultimately “just led to people thinking of better ways to kill them.”
Oklahoma has killed more inmates than any state except neighboring Texas since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Officials have even provided tours of the $104,000 renovated execution chamber to the media.
The Oklahoma House of Representatives recently conducted a study on using nitrogen gas to execute inmates, which would make it the first state to make legal the use of hypoxia by gas as an execution method.
Oklahoma isn’t the only state to explore alternatives to drugs, which have been hard to come by as many pharmaceutical companies have refused to sell them the compounds they need.
Tennessee, for example, has passed a law reinstating the electric chair in instances where it can’t get the right drugs, and Utah has even examined resurrecting the firing squad.
Still, proponents have pledged to push on, even if many states remain firmly in favor of capital punishment, regardless of the risks.
The Mortar the Merrier.
When I went to horseshoeing school, a vet had to put down a very expensive horse because of leg problems. He used Nicotine Sulfide(black leaf 40). SIX SECONDS TILL DEATH! Someone asked why he didn’t just shoot the horse.
The answer was “It looks nicer”.
And that is the problem. We don’t want to upset the old ladies, otherwise a hit to the head with a ball peen hammer would suffice.
The singing of hymns will be rejected by the secularists.
All the more reason to institute them. They could protest the hymns while they were protesting the hanging. What’s not to like about a twofer to p*$$ off the ACLU?
I don’t see anything wrong with shooting, hanging, or inert gas-
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inert gas asphyxia with gases including helium, nitrogen, methane, and argon, has been used as a suicide method. Inert gas asphyxia has been advocated by proponents of euthanasia, using a gas-retaining plastic hood device colloquially referred to as a suicide bag. At least 109 persons committed suicide using helium inhalation, the most popular inert gas for this use, from 2001 to 2009, in Australia.
Nitrogen asphyxiation has been suggested by a number of lawmakers and other advocates, as a possibly more humane way to carry out capital punishment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation
I don’t know why we don’t re-purpose some of the heroin that is confiscated. That would surely make the leftists heads spin.
Many years ago, the news media in Oklahoma had an interview with a liberal opposed death penalty.
I figured the interview would be with someone who was blond, had that weird look in their eyes, and wearing a suit.
Sure enough, it was when the interview happened it was with a blond guy in a suit, with that wild weird look in his eyes.
It occurred to me that the same capital punishment foes are all pro-choice. The irony that these people don’t mind killing the innocent but object to the deaths of the gulty.
Nitrogen. Just doze off, forever.
Explosive. Unpleasant for observers and staff, but deceased doesn’t notice a thing.
Then there’s...
Deli slicer
Belt sander
or the best...
Exactly what was done to his victim.
How does on ebotch an execution?
Did the condemned not die....or have they all died? I think the later is the case. So it is hardly botched.
Now, did it go as smoothly and sterile as the leftards want...no.
Why not just whack them with enough heroin and it’s light out. Painless and cheap, easily had and can be readily obtained from the tons of seized evidence in adjudicated cases.
I don’t understand this at all. Vets have drugs they use everyday to humanly put down animals. Won’t these same drugs work on people?
Morphine, given in sufficient quantity will kill.
What’s the problem?
“The Oklahoma House of Representatives recently conducted a study on using nitrogen gas to execute inmates, which would make it the first state to make legal the use of hypoxia by gas as an execution method.”
Say goodnight Gracie,,
“Sure enough, it was when the interview happened it was with a blond guy in a suit, with that wild weird look in his eyes.”
And let me guess.. he spoke with feminine vocal inflections.
How about just execute the condemned in kind, in exactly the same fashion as they did to their victims?
Sell seats & popcorn and make the process pay for itself.
Deli slicer
Belt sander"
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Or, depending on the heinousness of the crime...
Just overdose their ass on morphine. 50 bucks and everybody is happy.
Why is my government so freaking stupid.
TRUE! and that was 30 years ago!
Whatever happened to good old fashioned sodium cyanide dropped into a container of sulfuric acid in the gas chamber?
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