ACLU says lethal injection violates First Amendment

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 3/8/06 | David Kravets - ap

[jdontom]

These people will never be satisfied.......

[maine-iac7]

I believe in Utah the perp get a choice of method - hanging or getting shot. I would think a good clean shot would be more humane than most of these murderers deserve...how about they get killed by the same method they killed their victims?

[maine-iac7]

now THERE'S the best suggestion I've heard all year

[taxcontrol]

If you want cheep and sure fire to work, nitrogen asphyxiation. Rope has to be new so it will not break instead of the person's neck. Plus if you don't get it right, the person still is in a lot of pain and chokes to death.... or bleeds out when the head pops off the body. And that is a real mess (not to mention bio hazard) to deal with.

[RichInOC]

OMG WTF BBQ?

Somebody needs to slap whatever the ACLU's using for brains out of their heads and slap something more useful in there.

[Lancey Howard]

You would think that the ACLU would vigorously defend a syringe's right to say, "Now you die."

[Max in Utah]

Well, we used to shoot 'em anyway. Worked better when you could just take them into the desert and stand them up in front of a grave hole.

The last guy they shot took 4 .30-30 bullets through the heart. The chair he was strapped into sat inside a sheet metal catch basin with a tall splash board on the back side.

[HardStarboard]

>>>ACLU says lethal injection violates First Amendment<<<

Well there is evidently some controversy over this. I think that the question needs to be answered by someone, or some entity, that has experienced lethal injection.

Solution: administer lethal injection to the ALCU and then let them tesitfy in court.

[HardStarboard]

A firing squad...no prolonged suffering, no questions; nothing but instant death.

Expenditure....a bit of time and 7 bullets (one is always a blank).

Neat, sweet, and final.

[freepatriot32]

You ll have to trust me on this.This really isnt from the onion or scrappleface

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[little jeremiah]

Bullet in head is quick.

[ex-Texan]

Time to lethally inject the ACLU. They are vile scum, anyway. In 1981, I actually joined this group, became quickly disillusioned and resigned six months later. They were scum then and they are even more vile scum now.

[coloradan]

lethal injection protocol violates the First Amendment rights of execution witnesses by not allowing them to see if the inmate is experiencing pain before death

I can't believe no one has actually posted the First Amendment here, as a proper subject of discussion, so I'll do it for you. Sheesh!!

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or prohibiting execution witnesses from seeing whether the condemned experience pain immediately prior to death, as by administering a sedative-based lethal injection to the latter; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to petition the Government for redress of grievences.

Looks like this is an open and shut case for the ACLU, sorry to say!

Do I really have to identify this as sarcasm? Honestly?

[Stopislamnow]

Maybe its time to test that on random ACLU scumbags...let them evaluate it personally....not that they'll be in any condition to tell us how it went.

[redgirlinabluestate]

Just when you thought you had heard it all.....

Don't forget to support the Alliance Defense Fund --- they are fighting the ACLU every day.

www.alliancedefensefund.org

[austinaero]

I say we subject death row inmates to Hillary TV 24/7. They'll be begging for death in a week or two!

[Psycho_Bunny]

The ACLU's pretty lucky no one in the 1790's had the sense to include an amendment prohibiting dumbasses.

[freepatriot32]

In 1981, I actually joined this group,

Have you gotton all the slime off your skin yet or are there still residual traces to this day? :-)

[zarf]

Disemboweling is always effective.

How bout an abattoir where we can put these clowns on an assembly line for termination?

Electric bleachers?

[trubluolyguy]

The American Civil Liberties Union claimed in a federal lawsuit Wednesday that California's lethal injection protocol violates the First Amendment rights of execution witnesses

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Ok. The ACLU is right.


Back to firing squads.