US inmates fight back against lethal injection execution (chemicals could cause added suffering )

Yahoo News & AFP ^ | Feb 2, 2006 | AFP

[MarkL]

I have a nifty idea... Give enough of an anesthetic to cause an overdose. Then go with the additional chemicals.

Or, even better, say "Screw You! How concerned were you with suffering when you kidnapped, raped, and murdered that young lady?"

I'm waiting for someone to come up with an appeal to a jail sentance, saying, "being locked up in jail is cruel and unusual punnishment!"

Mark

[MarkL]

I've heard that drowning isn't that bad.

Or withhold food and water! That's a fun way to die! Just ask the people who killed Terri Schiavo!

Mark

[MarkL]

The leftists are against the death penalty but are all for doctor assisted suicide. Very well. Have the criminals executed with the same drugs that are advocated for use in suicide. That should put the left in a tizzy as they explain why it isn't "cruel" to kill an elderly person because he is a burden on his family and yet is is cruel to use the same method on a criminal.

Leftists only support the killing of innocent people. They oppose killing murderers. I suppose they realize that criminals and murderers are potential voters and supporters.

[lemura]

State of Missouri v. Michael Taylor 929 S.W.2d 209 (Mo.banc 1996)

Taylor, MichaelCase Facts: After using drugs, Roderick Nunley and Michael Taylor stole a car. While driving the car, the two men spotted a fifteen-year old girl waiting for her school bus. Taylor allegedly stated he wanted to steal the girl’s purse, and Nunley, who was driving, stopped the car. Taylor spoke to the girl and then grabbed her and forced her into the car. Nunley then drove to his mother’s house. The girl was taken out of the car and forced to crawl down to the basement. Taylor then raped the girl. At some point, Nunley gave Taylor some lubricant to facilitate the forced sexual intercourse. After the assault, the two men forced the girl into the trunk of the stolen car and tied her up. After Taylor stated he was afraid the girl would identify him, the two men decided to kill the girl. Nunley retrieved two knives from the kitchen and both men stabbed the girl. Nunley knew the girl was going to die from her wounds. (The former county medical examiner testified the victim was stabbed ten times and she died approximately thirty minutes later.) The men drove to a nearby neighborhood and parked the car, leaving the girl in the trunk. Nunley gave a videotaped confession to the police.

[Jackknife]

The killers should die the same way that they killed their victims.

Tit for tat.

[Joe Boucher]

No way man. Even though it is way cool it is french.
Use a typical American way of killing, smother them with dollar bills.

[WasDougsLamb]

Lawyers for Taylor, Hill and Rutherford are all arguing separately that the mix is "cruel" and "inhumane",


----So were the crimes to the victims they committed in the first place. Who cares what they think or want. I don't recall them caring when their victims no doubt begged for their lives or they would still be ALIVE.

[bk1000]

I've been sedated for sugery a couple of times and I guarantee
there is no pain. If they can sedate me to the point that they can cut me open and mess with my insides and I am not aware of it, then they can take it to the next level with no worries of causing undue discomfort to the convict during his execution.

[No Longer Free State]

"Without anaesthesia, the condemned person would experience suffocation and excruciating pain without being able to move or communicate that fact," said the study.

Even if that were true, they won't feel it for long.

[Fire_on_High]

How hard can it be? I've been with pets as they were put to sleep and I've never seen one last more than a breath or two after the injection. Seems very painless...they go limp and are gone within a few seconds.

That said, I'd prefer criminals suffer a bit. They don't deserve a comfortable end, like a beloved pet.

[SouthernFreebird]

Git a rope!

[TheBattman]

This method is pretty environmentally friendly as well - and instantanious (for those that insist on "painless" execution...

[Halls]

I would choose carbon monoxide poisining. You don't feel a thing but wanting to go to sleep and as soon as you fall asleep you are gone.

[Unicorn]

That easy Hang them See fixed easy huh.

[gathersnomoss]

Fine, let the friendly radical Islamic jail guards chop off their heads.

[doberville]

Absolutely brilliant!!

[Echo Talon]

I would choose carbon monoxide poisining. You don't feel a thing but wanting to go to sleep and as soon as you fall asleep you are gone.

hmmm, that would probably be ok. How about the Guillotine? I think that would be rather painless also, sever the brain stem and its over.

[Halls]

Yeah, at least with the guillotine you never knew what hit you, lol!

[Echo Talon]

if i got the guillotiene i would ask for either my eyes be duct taped closed(duct tape around my head and eyes, or a black bag, just incase for that split second that your head is
cut off to make sure that you dont see anything. :)