[Graybeard58]

What is "unconstitutional pain"?

[definitelynotaliberal]

Great minds ;-)

[bfree]

Shouldn't the death penalty include pain? I would hope it was a slow, very long and painful procedure for him.

[i_dont_chat]

I heard an interview with the father of one of the victims, and he stated how the killer would receive an injection and would be dead within 15 minutes, and he said something like: I wish to God my daughter's passing could have been that easy.

Can you believe it? There is a contingency of people saying that the death penalty by injection here in Texas should be banned because it is so painful.

Still waiting for Perry Austin (who is on Texas Death Row) to be executed. In 1992, he kidnapped and murdered an 8-year boy from our neighborhood.

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/austinperry.htm

Austin pleaded guilty, said he didn't want the automatic appeal, and asked to be moved ahead of the line for execution, and then the Amnesty International people visited him in prison and talked him into allowing the "appeal process" to take place.