If there is discomfort, it is fleeting and given what these monsters put their victims through, I'd consider it divine intervention if the anesthetic didn't do its thing. Besides, the Constitution reads "cruel and unusual," not "cruel and inhumane." It seems pretty usual to me and the words are joined by "and," not "or." Nice to know that murdering bastard got as far as to be strapped down with the IV started.
"given what these monsters put their victims through, I'd consider it divine intervention if the anesthetic didn't do its thing."
I could not agree more, especially in the case of Taylor. Taylor and his partner kidnapped a 15 year old girl waiting for a school bus, took her to a home of Taylor's mother, raped her repeatedly for 90 minutes and then stabbed her to death with two kitchen knives. Taylor, when he was caught, described in detail and with no remorse, the way she died and how he just stood there and watched it happen. He was telling it just like he watched it in a movie and was not the one who did the horrible act.
This man does not deserve any anesthetic. If it were up to me, the killers would be put to death in the same manner that they killed their victims and preferably over the same time period. But then again, I believe in justice.
Oh, guess that rules out honey&the ant hive death?
What about a "beautiful death"? No food, nor water for a few weeks? The Dem's have already approved it.