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Gunshot, not Lethal Injections, Is Most Humane
Canada Free Press ^ | 05/03/17 | Michael Fumento

Posted on 05/03/2017 8:46:40 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Capital punishment in the US needs to be debated on its own merits and may eventually go the way of Canada. Until then, a humane society needs to choose the most humane method of employing it

Lethal injection executions, back in the news, just aren’t working. For a variety of reasons. While they are bloodless (so is strangulation, starvation, and being broken on the wheel), it appears they often are not painless. They most certainly are not quick, sometimes taking hours. They arguably violate the Hippocratic Oath in having a doctor perform them, yet you hardly want an amateur to perform them. And drug companies don’t want their products associated with causing death. Go figure!


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: capitalpunishment; excerpt; execution; gunshot; lethalinjections
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1 posted on 05/03/2017 8:46:40 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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I have a whole bunch of .22 lr I will gladly donate, free of charge.


2 posted on 05/03/2017 8:49:15 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Sean_Anthony

give them a massive heroin overdose-

They will probably willingly take it themselves
and its much better than they deserve.


3 posted on 05/03/2017 8:49:22 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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Who really knows if even the guillotine is painless?


4 posted on 05/03/2017 8:50:07 AM PDT by Buttons12
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Injections are given for the benefit of the onlookers, who can delude themselves into thinking that the condemned man doesn’t suffer. They don’t like looking at blood either.

Stop the delusions. The firing squad is pretty damned efficient. Works every time. So there’s a big bang or two!


5 posted on 05/03/2017 8:55:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cleverly destroying leftist idols with great gusto.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Actually, smothering them with nitrogen is the most humane. They will never know they are asphyxiating.


6 posted on 05/03/2017 8:55:46 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: I want the USA back
The vet seems to have little trouble putting the dog down, quickly. Are we questioning the humanity of that method?

I'm not arguing against firing squad either, except likely the shot could be placed other than on the heart.

7 posted on 05/03/2017 8:57:24 AM PDT by Cboldt
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They most certainly are not quick, sometimes taking hours.

I'm not aware of any lethal injection execution that took hours. Did I miss something? Can anyone point me to a single case in which the executed took hours to die?
8 posted on 05/03/2017 9:02:04 AM PDT by slumber1 (Islam delenda est)
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To: Mr. K

Inert gas asphyxiation...

Fainting, then the systems shut down due to lack of oxygen.

Cheap too...


9 posted on 05/03/2017 9:02:55 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: Cboldt

Why don’t we slowly pull them apart with giant forceps? Seems OK for the innocent unborn, so why not for the adjudged guilty murderer? I’m sure we could get “Dr.” Kermit Gosnell outta stir to be high executioner. He has lots of experience in such procedures.


10 posted on 05/03/2017 9:04:00 AM PDT by FiddlePig (Who needs Truth & facts when you have narrative?)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Giant multi-ton flat rocks ... drop it, clean up any spatter that oozes out and use masonry glue to attach a “headstone”.


11 posted on 05/03/2017 9:04:05 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Buttons12

Shouldn’t even have to care one jot.


12 posted on 05/03/2017 9:04:45 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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And drug companies don’t want their products associated with causing death.

Wow - really ? Seems that most drug commercials I see these days on TV tell me I'll have thoughts of suicide if I use their product.......

13 posted on 05/03/2017 9:05:22 AM PDT by Mopp4
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To: Sean_Anthony

100% pure dry nitrogen, inhaled, is absolutely lethal. It’s also dirt cheap and non-toxic.


14 posted on 05/03/2017 9:06:25 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Clutch Martin

Death by Beiber

In an acoustic echo room play Justin Bieber music loud enough to kill.


15 posted on 05/03/2017 9:06:51 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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In an acoustic echo room play Justin Bieber music loud enough to kill.

The condemned would beg to be impaled, instead ...

16 posted on 05/03/2017 9:08:02 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Sean_Anthony

What about that thing from No Country for Old Men? The captive bolt pistol or cattle gun or whatever it is. Seems quick and permanent.

Oh, and this reply is not for the non-existent sean_anthony. It’s for the real FReepers that are reading this thread.


17 posted on 05/03/2017 9:09:39 AM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: Sean_Anthony

Pneumatic bolt, like cattle


18 posted on 05/03/2017 9:10:36 AM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Sean_Anthony
"Doesn't America already have enough Gun Violence?" </liberals>
19 posted on 05/03/2017 9:11:24 AM PDT by PROCON
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Who really knows if even the guillotine is painless?

Well, there's never been a single complaint...

20 posted on 05/03/2017 9:11:26 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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