Uncomfortably Numb (Lethal injection looks painless and peaceful. Appearances can be deceiving...)

River Front Times ^ | Malcolm Gay

[Leatherneck_MT]

Personally I would rather they bring back an old biblical method of execution.

Stoning

Especially for Rapists, Child Molesters, Murderers and Traitors.

[The Old Hoosier]

Firing squad seems much more humane than injecting someone as though they were an animal.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Hand the condemned a complaint form, tell them that they need to fill it out after the doctor declares them dead.

[CARDINALRULES]

I think we should get rid of death by injection.

I want them to go back to the chair, public hangings, and firing squad to get rid of these scumbags.

I can't bring myself to worry about murderers feeling a little pain when their victims most likely suffered extreme pain.

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My personal choice would be to take a few out into the ocean and study how Great Whites and other sharks attack humans. Other than that one video of that poor woman getting her leg ripped off there isn't much data.Maybe test repellents. LOL

I also like the old ways of the rack, pikes, tar and feather (perfect for molesters).

Rats: The executioner puts a cage filled with wild rats on the bowel region of the body. Light a fire behind the rats, and they eat their way through the intestines of the person being executed.

Cuts: The executioner carves a thousand small cuts in the person being executed, this person would (after a long time of misery) bleed to death.

These last two sound really painful -- I like the idea. ;-`)

Of course just the ones that killed their victims in the most horrible ways or raped and killed children should have this treatment.

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Frankly I don't care how they are executed, just as long as it gets done within a reasonable period of time, 20+ years on Death Row is a joke.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

The American Medical Association has publicly condemned physician involvement in lethal injection.

But they're OK with physician involvement in the bloody act of abortion.

Bloody hypocrites.

And they're OK with physician involvement in euthanasia - withholding food and water, as they did with Terri.

[BTW, I'm against the death penalty. It seems too easy to me. I think life in prison is a far worse punishment.]

[Noumenon]

Bring back public hanging.

[sionnsar]

Cruel and unusual punishment is exactly what we need.

Always seeking after novelty, are we? ;-)

[FreedomCalls]

I have no problem with the death penalty per se, but like you am against it...I think the chances of someone innocent being executed are too high to justify it... That said, if there were some way to eliminate that possibility, I'd be all for it.

Then you must also choose never to fly in an airplance until the chances of a crash are eliminated? Or perhaps never to drive your car until the chances of death in an automobile accident are also eliminated?

[tet68]

"The worst-case scenario is that you wake after a sub-anesthetic dose of sodium pentothal. [You've already received] a paralyzing dose of Pavulon -- and experience the torment of suffocation and conscious paralysis , then the dose of LSD-25 hits and the executioners don masks that look like your victim-- and then the agony of the burning potassium chloride,"

Come on, can we not be creative about this?

[elbucko]

Ahh....the whole article is specious at best.

I thought as much. It's just the ACLU attempting to cause the death penalty to be considered cruel and unusual and therefore, unconstitutional, regardless of the total absence of pain and suffering. The Left likes to amend the Constitution without amending it.

What you had to say about anesthesia before euthanasia was interesting. I am around a number of horses, livestock, working dogs and barn cats and I always ask the vet to anesthetize the animal that is going to be put down. Some complain that its not necessary, but I don't care. I've seen a few botched put-downs and it ain't pretty. It's worth the extra step to avoid a cruel end. Like I posted to the veterinarian, even the worst of human scum should be executed with the utmost care to avoid pain and suffering so that the victims will receive the justice due, even if its not as cruel as the crime. AAMF, I believe that only a truly just and civilized society has capital punishment. Especially for treason.

[LibFreeOrDie]

How does Dr. Kavorkian put'em to sleep?

Kevorkian used the same sequence of drugs (sedative, paralyzing agent, then potassium chloride) on the man he killed on "60 Minutes" in 1998.

[TAdams8591]

My comment was in reference to capital punishment and the method used to murder Terri Schiavo. I fail to see how your response logically connects to my reply.

[pro death penalty]

I totally agree. If they would use the death penalty more often there wouldn't be the crime that there is now. There is no surety of punishment. China's prisons are dirt floors and prisoners have to dig holes to take a crap. The prisons are unsanitary our prisons offer cable TV, computer access, 3 meals a day my god its like the Holiday Inn. Seems like cons like going to prison its no big deal. I say execute the pedophiles, murderers and there won't be a prison over population problem and it would deter crime.