Calif. Proposes Altering Lethal Injection - "would not experience wanton or unnecessary pain."

KFMB ^ | 03-04-06 at 11:10AM | KfMB

[Former Military Chick]

Again, who said death was to be painless. They aren't being hung after all.

[burzum]

Obviously this is exactly what the founders meant by cruel and unusual punishment. Sheesh. Only in Liberal land.

[Perdogg]

I think they should just tie his nuts to one end of a rope and the other to the bridge span and throw him off the golden gate bridge.

[raccoonradio]

Be sure that needle is well sterilized. We wouldn't want him to get infected, even though we're killing him anyway...

[goldstategop]

I again offer to volunteer to strangle the sociopath with my bare hands. Give me a few minutes and its all over. Unlike the needle - no pain.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Howie66]

I strongly recommend that California set the hypodermics to the curb and replace them with a nice reliable 7.62 mm NATO round, administered through an equally reliable M-14. With a properly trained "administrator" (yours truly for instance), it is guaranteed to achieve the desired results with absolutely no pain at all for the individual that is on the receiving end, unlike what that individual's victims evidently suffered.

Just a thought.

[Former Military Chick]

PING

San Quentin State Prison wants to slightly change the composition of the three-drug death cocktail and the manner by which it would be injected in response to a lawsuit brought by a condemned prisoner.

In response to those allegations, the state on Friday altered the amount of the three drugs to be used and, most significantly, said it would continually drip a sedative into the prisoner to make sure he doesn't become conscious once the paralyzing and heart-stopping drugs are injected.

[goldstategop]

Good idea. Throw him off the Golden Gate Bridge and call it "assisted suicide." Surely even a liberal blowhard like Jeremy Fogel should have no problem with it. Its just a way of helping the killer get a merciful death with a little kindly assistance. Too bad we can't have a Dr. Kervorkian help shove him over the bridge rails outside San Quentin.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[umgud]

I think they should just tie his nuts to one end of a rope and the other to the bridge span and throw him off the golden gate bridge.

The judge?

[jazusamo]

IMO judge Fogel knew what would likely occur from the conditions he set. He had to know the a medical doctor would not administer the lethal meds. He doesn't belong on the bench.

[Gordongekko909]

If they're so concerned about causing the executee pain, why not just pump them full of some opium derivative until their heart stops? There's probably a bunch of heroin hanging around in an evidence locker somewhere. It would save money to do it this way, too.

[goldstategop]

I have made my opinion of Judge Fogel clear. The judge should be made to see how painful murder is. Maybe then he will see the light and stop coddling murderers.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[righttackle44]

"U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel didn't say whether he would approve of the new method."

How could he REALLY know unless he tries the new
drug procedure on himself?

[Jim Noble]

Use an axe.

[Fido969]

"I'm all broken up over this man's rights..."

[Tarkin]

Remember that the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause wasn't even applicable against the states until in 1962 (Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660) the Warren court concluded that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was broad enough to include it.

[CyberAnt]

Good grief - why don't they use a dart gun like they do with animals when they want to put them to sleep so they can rescue them - or to keep them from attacking.

Nobody in the animal community seems to have a problem with that .. but they're worried some slimy killer might be in pain when he dies .. I hope to hell he is!

[Tarkin]

"The cruelty against which the Constitution protects a convicted man is cruelty inherent in the method of punishment, not the necessary suffering involved in any method employed to extinguish life humanely."

Francis v. Resweber 329 U.S. 459 (1947)

[Tarkin]

STATE OF LA. EX REL. FRANCIS v. RESWEBER, 329 U.S. 459, 470(1947), (Frankfurter, J., concurring)

a State may be found to deny a person due process by treating even one guilty of crime in a manner that violates standards of decency more or less universally accepted though not when it treats him by a mode about which opinion is fairly divided. But the penological policy of a State is not to be tested by the scope of the Eighth Amendment and is not involved in the controversy which is necessarily evoked by that Amendment as to the historic meaning of 'cruel and unusual punishment'. See Weems v. United States, 217 U.S. 349 ,

We have travelled a long way since 1947, haven't we?

[When do we get liberated?]

A guillotine costs about 200 calories to operate and is painless. By putting the head between the legs upon burial we can shorten the caskets and save money too.

That was harsh even for me.