[Sax]

A bullet may be messy and disturbing to witnesses, but I don't think you can argue the swift effectiveness. Killing is a dirty business even when it's necessary.

[Kenton]

I propose that we replace lethal injection with starvation and dehydration, since that has been declared to be humane.

[dirtboy]

More anti-Americanism in the Lancet. Surprise, surprise, surprise...

[Jokelahoma]

A bullet? Pfffft. Just starve and dehydrate them to death. Lefties tell us that's extraordinarily humane, and in fact, euphoric.

[Machkas]

Prisoner executions by lethal injection in the United States may not be painless or humane, and may not even meet veterinary standards for putting down animals.

What? Are they getting complaints?

[NonValueAdded]

Just withhold food and water ... haven't we judicial notice that it is a peaceful way to go? </sarcasm>

[DTogo]

Fine, let's get rid of the death penalty and replace it with a couple hard labor gulags in central Alaska.

[Dan from Michigan]

Hanging....cheaper and more degrading.

Firing squad is too much a man's way to go for them.

[Onelifetogive]

I love the "feel-good" stories. Puts a smile on my face.....

[Disambiguator]

They also need to be sure to swab the injection site with alcohol to avoid the danger of infection.

[NoClones]

a long rope and a tall tree or a horse or even a chair will do the job and save the cost of 'peer review'

[armymarinemom]

My husband and I were discussing executions and Nursing ethics. During the discussion I pulled up a copy of the Nursing Pledge. If I were to practice by the pledge I couldn't kill anyone with a lethal injection. Anesthesia would be OK if I were a Nurse Anethethsist but by good practice I shouldn't give the Potassium overdoase. I could pull the lever for electrocution, lever for a floor for hanging or pull the trigger without breaking the pledge. I guess the lethal injections should be left up the Anesthesiologist.

[bbenton]

A few years ago some guy was convicted of child rape/murder in Iran and was beat, but in a large burlap sack (while still awake), and thrown off a mountainside. What the people did to get on death row in this country was inhumane. Lets shift the sympathy a little towards the victim and not the murdering scumbags.

[Imaverygooddriver]

Don`t tell me the ACLU is now going to start with this after they cheered about starving Terri Schiavo.

[Tacis]

Well, just as long as the process is more human than the way in which these scum murdered their vics, that's good enough for me.

This is the kind of research that really irks me. Can you imagine an objective study reaching the other alternative being published or even undertaken as a working assumption. It's like you'll NEVER see a study published that concludes that "fairies are inferior" or the "guns are good." Such findings are, simply, not permitted.

[Saundra Duffy]

Oh, but killing Terri Schindler by dehydration and starvation is A-okay. Oh, I see.

[k2blader]

I bet the ACLU types would have a huge fit if death row inmates were instead dehydrated and starved to death.

[zip]

may have experienced awareness and unnecessary suffering

Oh, poor babies. I truely believe that the murderers should be put to death in exactly the same manner that they used to kill their victims. If they raped and strangled their victim then .......Stabbed then stab to death, throw a tied up person off of a bridge to drown then....

It works for me.

[Taxcider]

"If anesthesia wasn't used, the condemned prisoner would suffocate and experience excruciating pain without being able to move"

And the problem with this is???
Take a life, lose your life...

[ErnBatavia]

prisoners executed by lethal injection may have experienced awareness

This is quite low on my "need to be concerned about" list...

[Old Professer]

I guess they'll just have go back to the painless method of starvation and dehydration, then.