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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Do Georgians even need to discuss this?
He asked for it.
He’s almost certainly correct.
Much more dignified as well.
So what?
Getting shot in the chest is so painless. Sorta reminds me of the severely retarded Arkansas killer Bill Clinton had put to death who assured his guards that he’d come back and finish his last meal after his execution.
Closed room, replace air with nitrogen, villain goes to sleep. Cheap, foolproof, painless so the lefties have a harder time making a case against it.
Why should he be allowed to choose how he dies? Did he offer his victim a choice?
I’d give him the same amount of input in matters is his own death, as he gave his victims.
Another words, shut up asshole.
Nobody gives a rip, unless it’s to try and tear down Western Civilation.
Exactly right.
All this concern for the killers, and absolutely nothing for their victims.
I really don’t understand why we haven’t implemented something like that.
Nitrogen.
Sedatives until the heart stops.
Carbon monoxide.
Here’s an idea - take your prison towel, shove it down your throat and choke to death.
With all the automated digital targeting software out there, it’s way past time to revisit firing squads.
One gun, hooked up to a computer that has infrared on the perps heart in his chest. No questions about why someone would agree to serve on a firing squad.
I volunteer to pull the trigger.
I would still give him the injection f him he dont get what he wants
This murdering scum should die by having his throat slit like he did to the person he murdered back in 1992. And those who delayed his execution until 2017 should suffer the same sentence. They are all scum.
Oh come on. It’s not like they’re injecting gasoline or sulphuric acid into his heart.
HEY!...I’ll bet that would work every time.
He is likely a Mormon that believes that the ‘blood atonement’ means that there are certain sins that only his own shed blood will forgive.
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Carl Vehse wrote:
“This murdering scum should die by having his throat slit like he did to the person he murdered back in 1992. And those who delayed his execution until 2017 should suffer the same sentence.”
Why is he still breathing 25 years after the murder?
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