Posted on 03/29/2016 9:46:40 AM PDT by DGA
It AIN’T the fall!
It’s the sudden stop.
you FIEND!
oops. Was Oklahoma. Not Missouri.
An ax would be a LOT better than a rusty knife!
Baseball bat, boxcutter and blowtorch.
Pre-execution blood testing for disease, then take the blood for the blood bank. Harvest all usable organs and tissues, use anything else needed for research, then cremate the remainder. Waste not.
Actually, I prefer 4-horse Mongolian make-a-wish...But scaphism will do. Ant hills will work in a pinch if the pulling power isn’t present.
True.
I’ve met Mr. 347V, and that is quite uncomfortable, to say the least.
I’m of the nitrogen/nitrous oxide bent myself. The person just goes to sleep and quietly asphyxiates. Done in 10 minutes tops, and cheaply.
Leave it to Gummint to vastly complicate something as simple as killing someone!
Heck; they probably mandate use of an alcohol wipe at the site of the needle insertion!
According to my morning news, they could use Herion and any teenager could tell the where they could get some.
How about these countries where euthanasia is legal.
How do THEY do it?
Did Jack Kevorkian leave behind any instructions?
Yes, basically.
It's lawfare, in the sense that the legal issues are being raised by anti-death penalty activists, but the issues are two:
First, the drugs do not have an FDA indication for this purpose (used according to labelling, they are not supposed to cause death).
Second, they are being administered by persons not licensed to administer them.
Under existing (idiotic) law, the manufacturer of a drug is liable for adverse effects of off-label use IF they sell the drug with knowledge of such use. A jury chosen for the purpose would surely put Merck or any other drug company out of business through this mechanism.
It's not lethal injection per se that's the problem - it's the voters ambivalence about capital punishment. The very idea of lethal injection arose because society (for the most part) won't tolerate simple and highly effective methods. In fact, believe it or not, that was the genesis of the electric chair and the gas chamber to begin with - the wish of a squeamish and cowardly public to avoid the rope and the axe.
I don't think a capital punishment system which requires it to be done in secret by special wizards expert in human physiology and pharmacology can survive. I don't think it SHOULD survive.
Hang 'em or behead 'em, and if you won't do that, abolish the penalty.
Actually, re-using a hanging rope isn't a very good idea -- it can result in some gruesome consequences.
The problem is that re-using the rope will eventually destroy its elasticity, taking out the natural "slack".
An inelastic rope can result in the condemned dropping thru the gallows floor...and popping the head right off the body.
This happened at least once in a public execution -- in Clayton, NM. "Black Jack" Ketchum, a prominent local outlaw was tried. convicted and sentenced to hang for train robbery in 1899. The gallows was constructed and tested the day before the execution, using a bag of cement to simulate the weight of a human body.
After testing, the rope was left extended thru the trap door overight, with the bag of cement still hanging on the end. As a result, the rope lost all its elasticity...and when "Black Jack" reached the end of his rope, his head was separated from his body.
This happened in full view of the audience, as the gallows was wide open underneath.
The complete story of Black Jack Ketchum and his gruesome execution may be found here, complete with photographs
Forgot about this!
Fantastic movie. Laugh out loud funny.
Oh well.
“An inelastic rope can result in the condemned dropping thru the gallows floor...and popping the head right off the body.”
Dead is dead.....which was the desired effect. Whether or not the head pops off is immaterial.
Excellent response - makes perfect sense.
thanks.
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