Posted on 05/14/2017 10:51:22 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A Georgia inmate is asking to be executed by a firing squad because he says lethal injection would be too painful for him.
Convicted murderer J.W. Ledford Jr. takes a pain medication, gabapentin, that changed his brain chemistry so much the lethal injection drug pentobarbital might not make him unconscious and would cause him “to suffer an excruciating death,” according to documents filed by his lawyer in US District Court.
“Mr. Ledford proposes that the firing squad is a readily implemented and more reliable alternative method of execution that would eliminate the risks posed to him by lethal injection,” his lawyers said in court papers filed Thursday.
The Georgia attorney general’s office replied Friday there was no proof a firing squad would be less painful and contended there was “no substantial risk” he would suffer severe pain in a Georgia execution by lethal injection.
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Personally, I’m all for executing murderers the same way they killed their victims. That being said, anyway that gets the job done works for me.
Gabapentin as a pain medication is usually given against foot pain due to peripheral neuropathy.
Suicide is painless so give him a 44 and ten minutes alone. If no bang, hit the plunger.
It's a way of demonstrating that we are better than they are. Better than the lesser angels of human nature. This is not so much about revenge as it is about justice. He killed someone, and per the laws of our land he must now pay the extreme penalty. In the eyes of our system, it should be nothing more and nothing less.
Dr. Harry Buchanan Johnston Jr. unavailable for comment.....OK BANG! right between the eyes. Next!
Hang ‘m.
An excellent idea and probably the least painful, too.
I’ve wondered for a while if heroin might be a humane way to execute someone.
Call Isis......they’ll be happy to help.
Same method, bubble helmet. The amount of nitrogen is limited to a few dozen liters, not as dangerous to the staff and witnesses as a whole room full...
I believe Utah still has the choice of rope or bullet -certainly cheaper...less barbaric.
I’d like to see these cretins suffer the same death as they meted out -
but we are supposed to be civilized.
Stop the decades long ‘on death row’ crap in cases where the guilt is indisputable... and administer the rope or bullet -
The appeals process is important, especially for capital sentences, but 25 years is just too long a time for the so-called justice system to take in determining justice. It suggests some serious bungling along the way.
While he may not have been all that swift before he started killing, after he shot the cop, a childhood friend, btw, the killer tried, unsuccessfully, to blow his own brains out.
I bet the Noth Koreans have some “painless” methods of execution.
Bingo.
Agreed. Injection was invented to protect the delicate sensibilities of the observers, not the condemned prisoner.
If you’re gonna kill the guy, get it over with quick - a bullet in the right place will do it. Pain? guess so, but so what?
Never fails. Always works.
Damned junkie wants to feel no pain
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