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

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

[sheik yerbouty]

Dr. Guillotine invented it for that same purpose..

[Itzlzha]

Lawyers for Taylor, Hill and Rutherford are all arguing separately that the mix is "cruel" and "inhumane", which would make it proscribed by the US constitution.

Hmm...two things come to mind.

1) Does this put Dr. Kevorkian and "assisted suicide" back on the table as to whether it's allowable? If the method describe above causes pain...what does Dr. Death's machine do? Is the argument going to be "they Chose to do it"? If so, then we argue the victims had no choice, neither to the perps!

2) How about simply starving them and denying them water? I hear it's "Euphoric"! Now isn't that much better than that nasty old needle way of dying?

[Revenge of Sith]

My first choice is the firing squad and my second choice is hanging.

[Echo Talon]

Firing squad would be OK if they did a head shot at close range not sure if i'd want a normal firing squad with a single rifle shot to the heart. In that case i'd probably choose hanging OR guillotine

[SouthTexas]

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

You mean like the victims?