The ACLU thugs want it both ways. They would claim a firing squad constitutes cruel and unusual punishment and violates the second amendment.
Hanging would be cruel and unusual, too.
Maybe we should let them chose the method of death.
Hell, if the ACLU wants to see ways an execution will show the pain and sufferning a murderer should feel, I'll be happy to get out some old horror movies for inspiration.
Guillotine.
And have it setup so that the first time it drops it stops a few inches above the neck.
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Does ACLU have a suggestion on how to conduct death penalty painless? I thought giving them a sedative has already been quite humane (well, perhaps giving sleeping pills with strawberry flavor, so the person doesn't have to feel any pain from injection, would be even 'nicer').
The ACLU thugs want it both ways. They would claim a firing squad constitutes cruel and unusual punishment and violates the second amendment.
Hanging would be cruel and unusual, too.
Maybe we should let them chose the method of death.
Criminals don't have the same rights as citizens. It was a nice try though.
These people will never be satisfied.......
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.
You would think that the ACLU would vigorously defend a syringe's right to say, "Now you die."
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.
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Bullet in head is quick.
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 ICongress 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?
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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
With all his gifts and insight, even George Orwell could not have invented the ACLU; with each passing day, their endless forays into The Absurdist Political Theatre of Obnoxiousness gets ever closer to treason.
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