[Dr.Zoidberg]

...which asserts that condemned prisoners may not be properly anesthetized and therefore experience excruciating pain during executions.

And this is a bad thing?

The reason the death penalty isn't the deterrent it could be is the prisoners are all treated like pets being euthanized by a veterinarian while being hidden from the public as they slip off to sleep.

If we showed them screaming and moaning and pissing in terror as they were led to the gallows, the deterrent effect of the death penalty would be fully restored.

As it is, death for criminals who deserve it is so sanitary and abstract that the little idiots on the outside who are told some crimes can get you killed are just too stupid to see the consequences. Show Tookie and his ilk in the full light of day approaching an impending death full of pain and fear and they will be more likely to understand their own mortality.

[MilspecRob]

The reason the death penalty isn't the deterrent it could be is the prisoners are all treated like pets being euthanized by a veterinarian while being hidden from the public as they slip off to sleep.

That is one of the reasons I think this story is such BS. I held my cat in my arms when she had to be put down. It was peacefull and she just drifted off. Not so sure the gunshots on Tookie's victims had it so well.